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Lasker Prizes Recognize Work on Cell Growth, Cancer Prevention, and Reproductive Care

Lasker Prizes Recognize Work on Cell Growth, Cancer Prevention, and Reproductive Care

Michael N. Hall, John T. Schiller, and Douglas R. Lowy, winners of this year’s Lasker awards for basic and clinical medical research. "Planned Parenthood" honored as Republicans target it for funding cuts.

The Readability of Scientific Texts Is Decreasing Over Time

The Readability of Scientific Texts Is Decreasing Over Time

Scientific abstracts have become less readable over the past 130 years, in part because recent texts include more general scientific jargon than older texts.

UK Employers Worry About Loss of Research Funding After Brexit

UK Employers Worry About Loss of Research Funding After Brexit

Britain must seek to protect research funding for its universities when it leaves the European Union or risk losing its leading role in innovation.

Collaboration on Science and Innovation With the EU

Collaboration on Science and Innovation With the EU

Paper outlining the UK’s objectives for an ambitious science and innovation agreement with the EU.

10+ Scientists Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Fieldwork Fails

10+ Scientists Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Fieldwork Fails

When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that's only one side of the spectrum.

Centre for Open Science Announces Elsevier as New Signatory to TOP Guidelines

Centre for Open Science Announces Elsevier as New Signatory to TOP Guidelines

Elsevier develops and implements comprehensive new journal data guidelines.

Britain Offers £1bn a Year to Stay in the EU’s Science Club

Britain Offers £1bn a Year to Stay in the EU’s Science Club

Britain will offer to keep paying more than £1 billion a year to the EU after Brexit to continue to participate in its science and research programmes.

Meet The Scientists Using FOIA To See Each Other’s Grants

Meet The Scientists Using FOIA To See Each Other’s Grants

Over the past decade, scientists or universities have used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get thousands of competitors' grants proposals. And many of the targeted scientists are upset.

3 Examples Of Crowdsourcing Science

3 Examples Of Crowdsourcing Science

The time for crowdsourcing science has arrived. From idea generation to job hunting, crowdsourcing science can have an impact in your research.

No Deal, No Review – #nodealnoreview

No Deal, No Review – #nodealnoreview

A template for responding the invitations for editorial and reviewer tasks for journals that you wish to boycott.

How a Polymath Transformed Our Understanding of Information

How a Polymath Transformed Our Understanding of Information

It took a polymath to pin down the true nature of ‘information’. His answer was both a revelation and a return.

Will 'Picking Winners' Work?

Will 'Picking Winners' Work?

Why has the UK government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?