Programming tools can speed up and strengthen analyses, but mastering the skills takes time and can be daunting.

Thomas König examines the consequences of the predicted fall of influence of British scientists on the future of European science.

Are we leaving behind the age of statistics, and entering a new age of big data controlled by private companies?

Moonshots, road maps, frameworks and more are proliferating, but few can agree on what these names even mean.

Do journals do a good job of finding appropriate peers to review papers? Are editors always in the best place to decide the fate of a paper based on a severely limited sampling of peer reports?

President Trump’s unconventional stances cannot go unchallenged.

This viewpoint proposes using a sharing index or S-index to measure investigators’ engagement in sharing research data.

Do popular science articles make the public overconfident about their own expertise?

U.S. scientists wait anxiously for the new administration to flesh out its policies.

Traditional values will not serve us well when it comes to debating the ethics of novel technologies such as self-driving cars. We need a new moral code.

University research and the fetishisation of excellence

Many professors frequently write tenure-review letters, but as a community, we’re not regularly discussing how we should be doing so, argues Eric Goldman.

John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives

Accounting for equity and justice for patients, clinicians, academics, publishers, funders and academic institutions.

Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment, says Andrew Palmer.

How Congress and Trump could affect the chemistry enterprise.

From immunotherapies to diagnostics, an expert panel outlines research goals for broad initiative.

Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment.

Despite frequent claims to the contrary, social media tools such as Twitter can be incredibly valuable for scholars.

The potential advantages and challenges involved in a shift away from for-profit journals in favor of institutional open access publishing.

A small number of scientists band together to reference each other’s work, gaming the citation system to make their studies appear to be more important.

Understanding the unwritten rules of graduate study is vital if you want to get the most from your PhD supervision.

Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist reflects on the perceptions and realities of how big breakthroughs are made.

After a decade of progress, Argentina’s scientists are battling a government bent on twisting public conceptions of their role.

It’s often argued that studying the liberal arts will enrich the life of the mind. For STEM majors, it can also give them a practical advantage in their careers.

With corporate funding of research, “there’s no scientist who comes out of this unscathed.”

Peer-review had a role to play when journals were all in print and competing for subscription real estate, but today it may be little more than a vestige of the print era.

As the NIH questions the place of preprints in grant applications, the U.K.’s MRC encourages scientists to submit non-peer-reviewed works for consideration.

The current peer-review system is limited to asking two people for their opinions - this is not enough.

Dame Athene Donald laments the lack of progress on gender issues