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Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists

Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists

Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.

Horizon 2020 Rules Changed to Tackle Pay Gap

Horizon 2020 Rules Changed to Tackle Pay Gap

The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.

WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed

WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed

WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.

Departing Senior NSF Manager Offers Hopeful Assessment of Agency’s Future

Departing Senior NSF Manager Offers Hopeful Assessment of Agency’s Future

Richard Buckius returns to Purdue “confident” of continued federal support for research

What Early-Career Researchers Can Do to Advocate for Science

What Early-Career Researchers Can Do to Advocate for Science

A reinvigorated science policy committee is working to engage scientists, government officials, and the community—and you can too.

Concerns Regarding the ASAPbio Central Service and Center

Concerns Regarding the ASAPbio Central Service and Center

Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.

Two Top Chinese-American Scientists Have Dropped Their US Citizenship

Two Top Chinese-American Scientists Have Dropped Their US Citizenship

China gets bragging rights to two more internationally recognized researchers

Climate Scientists Face Harassment, Threats and Fears of 'McCarthyist Attacks'

Climate Scientists Face Harassment, Threats and Fears of 'McCarthyist Attacks'

Researchers will have to deal with attacks from a range of powerful foes in the coming years – and for many, it has already started.

Robots and AI could soon have feelings, hopes and rights

Robots and AI could soon have feelings, hopes and rights

We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.