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A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform.
A steroid commonly used in asthma inhalers has the potential to prevent severe COVID-19 symptoms. It could treat the illness early on and help to reduce pressure on hospitals.
The management of research data has become an essential aspect of good scientific practice. Education in research data management is, however, scarce.
Communication within the scientific community without twitter has become hard to imagine. It was only a matter of time, then, until someone started examining what makes a tweet scientific in itself. Dr Athanasios Mazarakis has examined this more closely and, in his guest article, reveals what he discovered when researching the scientific character of tweets.
It’s time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed.
This factsheet is a result of the 57th online seminar "Practical Steps Towards Open and Reproducible Research" (10 February 2021), organised by the Helmholtz Open Science Office.
Tracking how factors such as biases and conflicts of interest creep into editorial boards requires better data.
Early-career researchers bring energy, talent and diverse voices to leadership and advisory roles.
Quickly sharing the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus in early 2020 made all the difference in the response to the pandemic.
Even before the pandemic, many female scientists felt unsupported in their fields. Now, some are hitting a breaking point.
To understand how money affects politics, we need to understand how money affects psychology.
The EPA approved Oxitec's mosquitoes for release this spring. Some scientists and locals want to halt the deployment.
Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers.
The Psychological Science Accelerator could be the future of the field around the globe - if they can sustain it.
Paper analyzes how research contributions are divided across research teams, focusing on the association between division of labor and number of authors, and authors’ position and specific contributions by using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).
This special issue covers a diversity of topics on Chinese science, ranging from scientometric analyses to studies of the Chinese science system and research assessment in China.
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
Unreliable research programmes waste funds, time, and even the lives of the organisms we seek to help and understand. Reducing this waste and increasing the value of scientific evidence require changing the actions of both individual researchers and the institutions they depend on for employment and promotion. While ecologists and evolutionary biologists have somewhat improved research transparency over the past decade (e.g. more data sharing), major obstacles remain. In this commentary, we lift our gaze to the horizon to imagine how researchers and institutions can clear the path towards more credible and effective research programmes.
French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.
Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world
Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.
Peter Armstrong, 81, has been critical of management's financial competence and 'bullying' tactics
The push to remove journal paywalls officially started this year. Here's how it works.
A treaty might help countries to prepare for the next pandemic - but first they must study what went wrong during this one.
As the National Institutes of Health begins implementing Trump-era guidelines, researchers voice concerns over transparency and racial profiling.
Analysis reveals three ways to boost green investment and achieve a resilient recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.
