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How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?

Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.

Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.

This inequality needs to be addressed now.

A new study confirms what many already know: Exxon for years sowed uncertainty and doubt about climate change in the public. Should scientists reject certain funding sources?

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.

To conserve Earth's remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.

There are many obstacles to bringing the power of 21st-century technology to the NHS. But that shouldn't stop us trying.

Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices that aim to make the whole endeavor more transparent, more reliable – and better.

Scientists need funding to do their work. But a new study finds turning to industry partners taints perceptions of university research, and including other kinds of partners doesn't really help.

We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.

This is the second part in a series on how we edit science, looking at hypothesis testing, the problem of p-hacking and how the peer review process works.

Today's robots and artificial intelligence look very different from the androids conceived by Isaac Asimov.

Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?

Maths is often a quiet contributor to problems in subjects like biology.

We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.

There are more academic publishers out there than ever before. In 2014 there was an estimated 28,100 active scientific journals, but while the large majority of these journals are highly respected, there has also been a sharp rise in the number of predatory journals.

When politics meddles with science, it can lead to tragedy, as was the case with Stalin's favourite agricultural biologist Trofim Lysenko and his rival Nikolai Vavilov.

Drone technology is quickly evolving from a geeky accessory to multi-billion dollar industry.

A leading website that monitored predatory open access journals has closed. This will make it harder to keep tabs on this corrosive force within science.

There are a few red flags to look out for when reading about new scientific discoveries that can help you spot dodgy or unreliable work.

Promises made by researchers to participants to elicit the truth may not be worth the paper their written on if the courts can bulldoze though them.

Social scientists investigate when and why liberals and conservatives mistrust science. The apparent split may be more about cultural and personal beliefs than feelings about science itself.

With federal support for on-campus R&D dwindling as a percentage of GDP, keeping basic research afloat is a challenge. Schools and researchers are left to try to fill in the funding gaps.