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The spread of fake news on social media became a public concern in the United States after the 2016 presidential election. This article examines exposure to and sharing of fake news by registered voters on Twitter.

Despite some notable progress in data sharing policies and practices, restrictions are still often placed on the open and unconditional use of various genomic data after they have received official approval for release to the public domain or to public databases.

New contract gives researchers access to Wiley's journals and makes their papers open access

Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.

Climate already affecting communities, and effects will get worse without action. The new report is designed to be “policy relevant,” but does not make specific policy recommendations, federal officials associated with the U.S. Global Change Research Program noted.

Thousands of abstracts of conference presentations, most by authors in China, were declared flawed.

Already the world's second biggest R&D spender behind the United States, China is steadily narrowing the gap, according to a government report released last week.

Elena Álvarez-Buylla will become the director of the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico. While many scientists are delighted that she'll be the first woman to do so, critics worry about her opposition to genetically modified maize, which could spoil the country's astonishing agricultural biodiversity.

“I shouldn't have defined myself based on my publication record.”

The Riemann hypothesis, a formula related to the distribution of prime numbers, has remained unsolved for more than a century.

Almost 90% of academic clinical trials are not reported promptly to European registry.

For first time in decades, lawmakers finish measure before new fiscal year begins.

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

John "Iain" Glen, inventor of propofol, among four Lasker Award winners.

Observation confirms, yet again, a prediction of physicists' standard model.

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

Tweeting can help science outreach, but may take persistence.

An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank that number, now expects to complete just 18 studies.

Under the current slate of legislation, moderate increases would allow agency research dollars to continue their recent growth.

After her postdoc, this scientist built an editing business while traveling the world.

New IBM system shows off argumentation skills.

Steven Cowley takes over Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on 1 July.

Response to a proposed rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a 24 April 2018 press release.