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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures to keep from falling apart.

Science and the Breakdown of Trust

Science and the Breakdown of Trust

The COVID-19 syndemic is entering its most dangerous phase. There is a mounting breakdown of trust. Not only between politicians and the public. But also among politicians and publics with science and scientists. This breach of faith with science is far more threatening.

How Mathematical 'Hocus-Pocus' Saved Particle Physics

How Mathematical 'Hocus-Pocus' Saved Particle Physics

Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

America's Top Science Journal Has Had It With Trump

America's Top Science Journal Has Had It With Trump

The editor of Science has abandoned staid academic-speak to take on falsehoods in the White House-decorum be damned.

Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy

Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy

The Manchester Team within the Oslo Institute for Research on the Impact of Science centre has published this a conceptual paper that underpins the empirical work on framework conditions on the user side combining various political science and sociological theories.

Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That

Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That

The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten

Experts Aren't Just for Emergencies: How COVID-19 is Changing Evidence-based Policy Making for the Better

Experts Aren't Just for Emergencies: How COVID-19 is Changing Evidence-based Policy Making for the Better

One of the many unique features of this time is the level of public discussion about research and the role of experts in policy making. 

Reopening Plans and the Future of Open Scholarship: A Call for Participation

Reopening Plans and the Future of Open Scholarship: A Call for Participation

Over the last few months we've been in conversation with colleagues in higher education about what they see as the challenges that lie ahead as they weigh reopening plans and longer term effects of the global pandemic. Starting June 29th, we will be launching our first research effort to support institutional decision-making in research and scholarship.