Is Media Driving Americans Apart?
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
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Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
Leonard Freedman, president of the Global Biological Standards Institute, discusses the causes of irreproducible science and his latest effort to spread best practices.
We might hope for a better future where everyone acts professionally, but we should be realistic about the flaws of our human nature. Opinion piece by Stephen Curry.
Research practices, quality in research and researcher commitment are among the topics covered in this inspiring interview.
The digital currency is slowing our effort to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.
Carbon capture has a bad reputation. But after a year of reporting, I’ve come to a conclusion: It's both vital and viable.
We all lose because of the biases of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Lawsuits have an intimidating effect on an already difficult enterprise.
Funders should not support policy-relevant work that treats policy impact as an afterthought.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn’t exist,” says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
New technologies like artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and the internet of things could be used to reduce the widening economic gulf that is emerging in modern societies.
Retraction Watch interviews Irene Hames.
The OECD has just released a comprehensive report on Science, Technology and Industry for 2017. So how is France doing?
Combining the minds of humans and machines to avoid confirmation bias.
Scholarly publishing and academic self-determination are interdependent and a crucial point of future debate for the future of University presses and Open Access worldwide.
Early career researchers have an essential role to play in the move towards open research.
As work on 2018 farm bill picks up pace, remember money spent on agricultural science is money well spent.
It might style itself as a grassroots movement but citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business.
A definition is nothing without action and engagement.
If your institution won’t break down barriers for you, do it yourself.
Golden OA creates a conflict of interest: in a situation where the number of scientists is larger than the number of available positions, both journals and scientists benefit from publishing as many articles as possible.
This Thanksgiving, we bring you four portraits of immigrants in tech—from the C-Suite to the gig economy.
While green and gold open access have been put forward as two worthy emperors, it is time to conclude that they are unclothed.