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The elephant in the room we can’t ignore
If Donald Trump were to trigger a crisis in Western democracy, scientists would need to look at their part in its downfall, says Colin Macilwain.
The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain"
Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.
NSF launches long-awaited diversity initiative
The NSF announced its intention to hand out small grants later this year to dozens of institutions to test novel ways of broadening participation in science and engineering.
NIH to review its policies on all nonhuman primate research
The NIH will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.
Obama makes risky bid to increase science spending
Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.
Funding for key data resources in jeopardy
Several widely used biology databases supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute are facing unsettling change.
NIH to retire all research chimps
NIH director Francis Collins announced that the 50 NIH-owned animals that remain available for research will be sent to sanctuaries.
Research for all
Numbers on racial bias in research grants awarded by the NIH show that science has more to learn about inclusiveness.
Artificial intelligence institute launches free science search engine
Semantic Scholar comes from centre backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Cardiologist to head extramural research at NIH
Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.
Precision Medicine Initiative moves forward
The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.
Ignoring science isn't a Republican problem. It's an American problem.
"I'm not a scientist." How many times have you heard that lately from politicians who are trying to duck questions about important scientific topics like climate change and vaccines?
Using behavioral science insights to better serve the American people
Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.
Agencies plan research-ethics overhaul
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
Senate panel approves public access bill
Senate panel approved a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
Obama orders effort to build first exascale computer
The US is committed to building a computer some 30x more powerful than today's top machine.
Congress pushes NIH to spur breakthroughs through prizes
A provision in a new biomedical innovation bill passed last week in the House of Representatives would create a new program to launch prize competitions at the NIH.
Politics doesn't always rule
Although a person's political views are a strong predictor of their attitudes on climate change and a handful of energy issues, their gender, age, religion, race, or education play a larger role on many other controversial topics.
'Export rules' threaten research
The US government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications. Scientists would need to reconsider what they can discuss with graduate students from other countries, or when traveling abroad on work trips.
Killing tenure is academia's point of no return
If faculties across the US don’t take a very public and aggressive stand in defense of their colleagues in Wisconsin, there will be little to stop the process of complete corporatization of higher education.
Lawmakers advance controversial science-policy bill
Republicans in the House of Representatives seek to reshape research agenda.
Societies push back against NIH reproducibility guidelines
'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.
Former Columbia postdoc faked Alzheimer's research in Cell and Nature
The Cell paper has been cited 150 times, according to Web of Science, while the Nature paper has been cited 40. The Nature paper has not yet been retracted.
Other shoe drops for MIT cancer researcher Robert Weinberg as Cell retraction appears
Robert Weinberg, a prominent cancer scientist whose papers often notch hundreds or thousands of citations, has lost a fourth paper, this time a 2009 publication in Cell.
The real reason college tuition costs so much
There are no valid arguments to support the recent trend toward seven-figure salaries for high-ranking university administrators.
Harold Varmus stepping down as director of the National Cancer Institute
Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize winner who has led the National Cancer Institute at the NIH for nearly 5 years, said he will step down from his post effective at the end of this month.
Harold Varmus to resign as head of US cancer institute
The NCI call it the end of an era. Harold Varmus, director of the US NCI and former director of the NIH, announced on 4 March that he will be stepping down from his post at the end of the month.
NIH proposal to create grant for aging scientists hits a nerve
NIH's proposal-an "emeritus" award that senior scientists would use to pass their work on to younger colleagues and wind down their labs is being blasted in the blogosphere.