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Over the last week, there's been a storm over the executive compensation and financials at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
Apple announced today the launch of CareKit, a new open source software platform that allows people to develop their own health care apps.
Putting Science 2.0 and Open Science into practice
The scientist who helped develop the neural networks behind Google's AlphaGo, which beat grandmaster Lee Sedol, on the past, present and future of AI
Scientific data might be filled with important things waiting to be discovered.
Fields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics.
High level European policy meeting on funding research data to support open innovation, 6 April 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Once again, reproducibility is in the news. Most recently we hear that irreproducibility is irreproducible and thus everything is actually fine...
Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
A collection of 150 personal stories from scientists who are combining a career in research with their roles as parents and carers, each in their own way.
Female first authorship has increased since 1994 but plateaued from 2009 to 2014
Johns Hopkins and MedImmune team up to train scientists
Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.
This week’s budget contained the usual announcements about new research facilities. But behind the welcome news, concerns continue to mount
At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…
The problem with p-values.
Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?
Survey finds that 24% of research projects get new titles, up from 10% in 2012
Countries with weak national research systems were always going to struggle to win ERC grants.
An essay by the Pulitzer-prizewinning science journalist Deborah Blum.
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
