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Why Scientific Consensus Is Worth Taking Seriously
Yes, collective missteps happen. But if anything, history shows how hard it is to get scientists to agree in the first place.
How Paywalls Harm Cancer Patients
10 stories from users of the Open Access Button on why they need research to be freely available.
Former Ethiopian Health Minister Becomes First African Head of the WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised for health reforms in his own country, takes the helm at a critical time.
A Stanford Scientist on the Biology of Human Evil
"Our species has problems with violence." —Biologist Robert Sapolsky
Publish Houses of Brick, Not Mansions of Straw
Papers need to include fewer claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable.
Meta-Assessment of Bias in Science
Science is said to be suffering a reproducibility crisis caused by many biases. How common are these problems, across the wide diversity of research fields? We probed for multiple bias-related patterns in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines.
Anti-Vaccine Film Vaxxed Will Be Given Cannes Screening
A documentary in which the disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield alleges that a link between vaccines and autism has been covered up by the US government is to be shown at the Cannes film festival.
Rethinking Career Paths Across Academia
Is there an alternative to the standard academic career path that would actually make research work better?
The Crowd and the Cloud
The role and the impact of citizen science in today’s world.
Do ResearchGate Scores Create Ghost Academic Reputations?
Is it reasonable to employ the ResearchGate Score as evidence of scholarly reputation?
The Environment Needs Cryptogovernance
The blockchain technology that underpins cryptographic currencies can support sustainability by building trust and avoiding corruption, explains Guillaume Chapron.
Some Social Scientists Are Tired of Asking for Permission
If you took Psychology 101 in college, you probably had to enroll in an experiment to fulfill a course requirement or to get extra credit.
Designing a New Type of Journal Metric
At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project called Project Cupcake was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.
Nuclear Power Is on Its Way Out
It’s another blow to an industry that has been hammered in the U.S. and Europe, leaving a huge opportunity for China to emerge as a global leader in nuclear technology.
Gamification: The Future of Graduate Recruitment
Technology, innovation and digitalisation must be seen as sources of income and not as costs to a business.
Cooperation And Liaison Between Universities And Editors (CLUE)
Recommendations on best practice
Harnessing Serendipity
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
Two Female Scientists and a Militant Environmentalist Join Emmanuel Macron
Molecular geneticist and university administrator Frédérique Vidal is France’s new minister for higher education, research, and innovation.
The Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn’t need dark matter to work.
Introducing ORCID
ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.
Data Sharing Can Offer Help in Science's Reproducibility Crisis
A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.
Major Global Research Funders Take Strong Lead on Clinical Trial Transparency
Major Global Research Funders Take Strong Lead on Clinical Trial Transparency
Some of the world’s largest research funders and NGOs today agreed to adopt the WHO's strong standards on clinical trial transparency.
China's Belt and Road Infrastructure Plan Also Includes Science
Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.
Paper About Plagiarism Contains Plagiarism
An amusing case of plagiarism in a paper about plagiarism.
Gender Equality Figures Promising but Not the Full Story
Relying just on numbers to assess gender equality is insufficient because companies and researchers are smart enough to game the system.
Does Sharing of an Unpublished Thesis Create Enough Harm to Imprison Someone?
Does Sharing of an Unpublished Thesis Create Enough Harm to Imprison Someone?
Charlie Rapple highlights the case of Diego Gómez, a Columbian researcher facing prison for sharing someone else's thesis via Scribd.