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Public Confidence in Scientists Has Remained Stable for Decades
Today, four-in-ten Americans have a great deal of confidence in the scientific community.
Institute Announces New Open Access Policy for All MIT Authors
Optional license allows students, researchers, and staff to make scholarly articles freely available.
How Flawed Science Is Undermining Good Medicine
U.S. taxpayers pay $30 billion a year to fund biomedical research aimed at finding better treatments. But competition for scarce funding and tenure may be prompting some scientists to cut corners.
Updated Figures on the Scale and Nature of Researchers’ Use of Scholarly Collaboration Networks
Updated Figures on the Scale and Nature of Researchers’ Use of Scholarly Collaboration Networks
A new survey provides an updated view of how and why researchers are using scholarly collaboration networks.
Can “Digital Therapeutics” Be as Good as Drugs?
Entrepreneurs are betting on apps that improve—or just replace—prescription medication.
Unpaywall Scours the Web for Free Versions of Scientific Papers
The science publishing world is a complex one, but the pendulum is currently swinging away from the paywalled mega-journals of the last decade to a more open model.
23andMe Given Green Light to Sell DNA Tests
US Food and Drug Administration says firm can provide consumers with information on genetic risks.
Citation Data From 14 Million Papers, and More Might Come
Initiative for Open Citations makes citation data free for all
Global Coalition Pushes for Unrestricted Sharing of Scholarly Citation Data
A coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data.
Coca-Cola's Secret Influence on Medical and Science Journalists
A series of journalism conferences on obesity received covert funding from Coca-Cola.
Protocols.io Tools for PLOS Authors: Reproducibility and Recognition
Protocols.io Tools for PLOS Authors: Reproducibility and Recognition
PLOS now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts and persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods.
Composing Reproducible Manuscripts Using R Markdown
eLife now accepting manuscripts in R Markdow at innovation@elifesciences.org.
All Take and No Give? Many Scientists Resist Shift to Open Data
Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own.
Young University Rankings 2017
Newer universities excel when it comes to internationalisation, Times Higher Education’s 2017 ranking of the world’s top young universities shows
The DIY Electronics Transforming Research
Cheap, stripped-down microcontrollers are allowing users to pack huge amounts of computing power into tiny spaces.
Unpaywall Finds Free Versions of Paywalled Papers
New tool joins a growing collection of software for accessing fee-for-view scientific literature.
Hungary University Backed by Soros Is Facing Closure
The Hungary-born philanthropist's university says planned new laws will make it impossible to operate.
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation
Tim Berners-Lee just received the prestigious Turing Award that comes with a million dollars. Now he plots a radical overhaul of his creation.
Tim Berners-Lee Wins $1 million Turing Award
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
Web’s Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wins the Nobel Prize of Computing
Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right—and the technology he created needs a rethink.
Learning to Think Like a Computer
It’s obvious that computers have become indispensable problem-solving partners. But it’s suddenly not enough to be a fluent user of software interfaces. Understanding what lies behind the computer’s seeming magic now seems crucial.