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A Growing Open Access Toolbox
Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility.
Text and Data Mining with allofPLOS
Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.
Climate updates: progress since the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC
Climate updates describes how our understanding of the science of climate change, and its impacts, have progressed since the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
DOE to Award $99 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.
United Kingdom Relies on Science to Revive Flagging Economy
Long-awaited industrial strategy pins hopes on commercial gains from research.
Clean Energy Is Approaching a Tipping Point
The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.
Five Ways to Fix Statistics
"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman
Why Are Scientists Filing Lawsuits Against Their Critics?
When fellow scientists critiqued Mark Jacobson, he took their dispute to court.
Springer Nature Asks JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley to Organize IPO
Springer Nature is considering a potential 4-5 billion euro stock market listing next year.
Controversial Software Is Proving Surprisingly Accurate at Spotting Errors in Psychology Papers
Controversial Software Is Proving Surprisingly Accurate at Spotting Errors in Psychology Papers
When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.
'I've Been Mistaken for the Coffee Lady'
Experiences of black female academics. A new book explores ther career trajectories.
Industrial Strategy Brings Focus on Interdisciplinary Research
The UK government’s long-awaited industrial strategy has arrived. It brings with it a fund to support interdisciplinary research and funding boosts for both the research councils and quality-related research funding.
Choose Your Breakthrough of the Year
From cancer advances to the cosmos, what's your top choice?
EU to Prioritise Deeper Higher Education Cooperation and Mobility
European leaders and the European Commission have backed proposals to step up higher education mobility and exchanges and create a network of European universities with integrated study programmes and curricula that enable students to study abroad.
PLOS Reports $1.7M Loss In 2016
After several high surplus years, a relatively small 2016 deficit will not sink PLOS.
How the Sugar Industry Tried to Hide the Health Effects of Its Product 50 Years Ago
China Leads BRICS University Rankings
7 out of the top 10 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2018 are in the east-Asian nation.
Sci-Hub Domains Inactive Following Court Order
'Free science'/pirate site operator 'working on solving DNS issue'