How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.

The role they play in evaluations for graduate school admissions, fellowships and jobs can be baffling.

From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say.

Pushing the ARC to focus on commercialisation neglects the complex interdependency between basic and applied research, says Duncan Ivison.

Members of the OCLC Research Team discuss their project examining changes to library work, collections, and engagement experiences and how they will lead to the future of libraries.

COP26 energized the global effort to halt global warming. Research is now crucial to monitoring progress and creating solutions.

What the Manhattan Project's scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer and his physicist-colleagues went through after the war holds lessons for us today, hoping for the end of our own generation's global crisis.

Emotions enhance our process of reasoning and aid decision-making, says the author and physicist Leonard Mlodinow

To speed research, express conclusions as testable statements, and incorporate testing into training.

The impact on careers of a lingering pandemic and industrial unrest were among the challenges faced by working scientists in the past 12 months

Omicron, Moon missions and particle physics are among the themes set to shape research in the coming year.

People are wising up to Boris Johnson and choosing to listen to unelected experts over those paid to make bad decisions.

What can research societies do to improve accessibility and equity in Open Research? Haseeb Irfanullah suggests ways we can transform our outlook and efforts.

Unlike many valuable resources, real-time data is both abundant and growing rapidly. But it also needs to be handled with great care.

Millions have died unnecessarily and millions more will in 2022 unless something changes, says Anthony Costello, former WHO director

State your main finding in your title, and don't forget to use the word 'but', says Bruce Kirchoff.

The silence of other universities about an apparent clampdown on lawful speech is a betrayal of their mission, says Jonathan Rosenhead.

Anthony Fauci on four decades of progress against HIV, and what's needed for the future.

The teams in Africa who detected the new Covid genome moved quickly. Their actions should not result in economic loss.

Helping every scientist to improve is more effective than ferreting out a few frauds.

The former president of the European Research Council (ERC) is sounding an alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic may disrupt Europe's supply of scientific talent. 

These are some of the negative realities of academic life that people often avoid discussing, as well as some advice for dealing with them along the way.

The catalysis of CO2 conversion is a research topic ripe with potential to contribute towards a net-zero future.

Climate campaigners sometimes overstate the science, but they serve a valuable role, says an IPCC lead author.

Analysis of how papers and databases are handled and interpreted shows that geneticists in Europe must stamp out unethical research practices at home, not just abroad.

Researchers and intellectual-property specialists offer their tips for deciding which discoveries are worth patenting, and how to do the homework needed for success.

A look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.

The machine learning outfit's foray into pharmaceuticals could be very useful, but its grand claims should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.

A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.