Catherine Winchester was hired to ferret out errors and establish routines that promote rigorous research.

Neuroscientist Caitlin Vander Weele gives us a crash course on academic Twitter in our new blog post. She highlights the benefits of using social media as a scientist and gives tips on how to optimize the experience.

The AAAS Federal R&D Budget Dashboard is an interactive tool for exploring long-term federal funding trends within the context of the broader budget.

Men appear to be favored throughout the selection process.

The Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II, worked out of three purpose-built cities in Tennessee, New Mexico, and Washington state. A new exhibition considers their design and legacy.

Nasa, ESA, and Brazil’s inpe make most or all of their environmental satellite data available for free.

This post introduces the citation distribution index, an impact indicator developed by Science-Metrix to address many of the limitations of the average measures used in bibliometrics.

Nobel-prize data suggest the productivity of American science has fallen.

Twenty years on, Dave Reay speaks out about the depression that almost sunk his Ph.D., and the lifelines that saved him.

Over the past few years, Nature has published editorials extolling the virtues of replication, concluding in one that “We welcome, and will be glad to help disseminate, results that explore the validity of key publications, including our own.” Mante Nieuwland, of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and colleagues were encouraged by that message and submitted one such replication attempt to Nature Neuroscience. In a three-part guest post, Nieuwland will describe what happened when they did and discusses whether reality lives up to the rhetoric. 

Complex algorithms will soon help clinicians make incredibly accurate determinations about our health from large amounts of information, premised on largely unexplainable correlations in that data.

Wikidata offers a low-barrier, high-result method of making data not only visible but reusable.

The Identifiers Expert Group of the FORCE11 Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP) has achieved a significant step toward the harmonization of identifier resolution standards for data citation in research articles. 

An increasing number of universities are ending, or threatening to end, bundled journal subscriptions with major publishers.

According to Wikipedia, Open Science is "the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society, amateur or professional." That definition raises a number of questions.

Sometimes at chickens.

While over a third of black, Latino, and Native American students enter college with an interest in studying STEM, only 16 percent go on to obtain bachelor’s degrees in these fields.

Women being left out of national security discussions is not a new discovery. What struck us is that when it comes to nuclear policy, there are ample women to quote, so why isn’t that reflected in the reporting?​

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

A bit over 20 years ago, in February 1998, Andrew Wakefield published his infamous article in Lancet, which was eventually retracted in 2010. He stated that "onset of behavioural symptoms was associated, by the parents, with measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination in eight of the 12 children."

Making data available to the larger scientific community has many benefits.

Five researchers share their stories and advice on how to maintain good mental health in the hyper-competitive environment of science.

The academic discovery space seems to be buzzing again. This space has become relatively stable after the introduction and maturity of Web Scale Discovery between 2009-2013, but things seem to be hotting up once again

According to a survey of 3,212 people in the field.

Study finds that countries ranking higher on measures of gender equality tend to have fewer women pursuing a STEM education than those further down the gender equality ranks.  The analysis suggests that there are girls with the grades, confidence, and the enjoyment of science to go into STEM, who still end up pursuing other careers.  For the numerous organizations dedicated to addressing the problem of women’s underrepresentation in science, solutions are far from clear.

An informal group of like minded organizations coming together around a common purpose: work on a joint roadmap for open science tools.

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics-and vice versa. When you go far enough back, you really can’t tell who’s a physicist and who’s a mathematician.

This study finds that 73.7 percent of articles about OA are openly available.

Current evidence suggests that beyond a certain number of hours per week-around 40-productivity actually decreases. We need to appreciate our brain is a physically limited resource.

Discover enlightening reports about some of the most famous scientific papers, or read famous scientists considering the work of their peers.