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It might feel like rocket science, but scientists need to get better at explaining things to people outside academia.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
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.
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
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.
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?
We asked three experts for their takes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the wake of the Flint water crisis and with a new notably anti-science president, U.S. scientists are reevaluating how to navigate the tension between speaking out and a fear of losing research funding.
Drone technology is quickly evolving from a geeky accessory to multi-billion dollar industry.
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.
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
