ScienceGeist

Here is a roundup of key takeaways from our studies of U.S. public opinion about science issues and their effect on society.

His original submission was rejected as being "too narrow" - but later authors who presented the same idea as a new technology rather than as a scientific finding have been hailed as inventors of optogenetics.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution observations of the Sun’s surface ever taken. In this movie, taken at a wavelength of 705nm over a period of 10 minutes, we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever.

The new report, Presidential Recommendations for 2020: A Blueprint for Defending Science and Protecting the Public, outlines a suite of recommendations that the next president can take to protect the health and safety of the public through restoring science to government decisionmaking processes. The report focuses on strengthening three major principles underlying science-based decisionmaking: independence, transparency, and free speech.

Even in the best-case scenario, developing, testing, and mass-producing a new vaccine takes many months.

Mauro Ferrari joins EU organisation at a delicate moment but says his focus is on identifying 'breakthrough people'.

The European Union's new innovation chief, Mariya Gabriel, wants to "revitalise" efforts to create a real single market for research, education and innovation, bridging the performance gap between eastern and western Europe.

A century and a half has seen momentous changes in science. But evidence and transparency are more important than ever before.

 Researchers in Sweden have created a molecule that offers a way to trap heat from the sun.

There's been an extensive campaign to create distrust on everything from vaccines to climate change. Here's why you should trust science.

The first figures emerge demonstrating that Brexit uncertainty has adversely affected UK research.

Autoformatting in Microsoft Excel has caused many a headache—but now, a new study shows that one in five genetics papers in top scientific journals contains errors from the program.

Two upcoming reports disagree on the wisdom of setting a 2050 target for ending the disease.

Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better.

Google announces 2019 science fair winners.

Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people.

Most plant life survived the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl - and they have a lack of legs to thank for it.

The University of Alaska system faces a 41% budget cut. Why that is devastating to education, science, and society.

The world's largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges.

Sluggish economy and unemployment could explain French pessimism about science's job-boosting power.

Brexit or no Brexit, scientists across the continent have an obligation to keep standing up for ideals such as integrity, trust and cooperation, writes the European Union's former director-general of research, Robert-Jan Smits.

Academy will be managed by nationalist government in unprecedented move.

Spin in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments affects patients’/caregivers’ interpretation.

For years, scientists have declared P values of less than 0.05 to be "statistically significant." Now statisticians are saying the cutoff needs to go.

scite is a platform that allows anyone to see if a scientific report has been supported or contradicted by subsequent work. Its aim is to make it easier to tell what is fact and what is not.

The effort wouldn't have succeeded without Katie Bouman, who developed a crucial algorithm and helped devise imaging methods.

Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image.

Mars emits methane, a European orbiter has confirmed. But scientists can't say yet whether the source is geological or biological.

Looking beyond a much used and abused measure would make science harder, but better.

In creating a new innovation council, the European Commission is experimenting not just in policy but also in management.