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A new study shows that little teams are more likely to take their research in radically new directions.

Teams can work well, but co-leaders often don't.

Top tips for principal investigators to help junior scientists navigate the travails of teamwork.

Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative's approach to accelerating science and curing disease.

The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.

Foreign faculty in Japan are less productive than their local counterparts on many measures, but better connected to global collaborations.

A web application showing how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.

A digital scholarship librarian and a historian assembled a team of professors, graduate students, researchers, and fellows to create "Torn Apart / Separados", an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed.

'Devil in the details' when US and European researchers try to work together under Horizon 2020.  When it comes to US-European relations, nothing is simple these days.

International research collaborations could end in wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision.

Expansion of US carrier associated with an increase in partnerships of more than 30 percent.

Researcher-centric communication, collaboration and attribution platform powered by blockchain - with proof-of-existence and real-time, permanent, citing for all scientific and scholarly works.

The case for decentralized, trusted platforms for the dissemination of scientific information and attribution.

Ensure the benefits are felt by all involved, maintain a degree of distance and objectivity, protect the quality of consent and your publishing rights, and always choose your partners carefully.

Papers authored by academic and corporate partners are more widely discussed online.

Scientists who collaborate locally publish more papers and are more highly cited than those who engage in long-distance relationships.

Combining the minds of humans and machines to avoid confirmation bias.

An analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.

How many scientists does it take to change the world?

Save time and protect critical code with 'continuous integration' services.

External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.

A clear correlation between a nation's scientific influence and the links it fosters with foreign researchers exists.

Free online tools for networking, data sharing and measuring research impact.

Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.

Bilateral partnership may provide new blueprint for EU east-west collaboration.

A time-limited exercise in which academics from many disciplines and from all over the world were brought together virtually to produce an academic article.