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Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooling water with fire.
Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.
Researchers had to remove the bird because they were worried it’d teach the others.
The issue regarding free access to academic journals and content is growing increasingly contentious, with founders of sites that enable this facing the might of the law. But should knowledge be exclusive?
Bill Radke talks to Paul Basken, science policy reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, about how we should consume news that reports on scientific research.
A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.
Experts debate how best to point researchers to reputable publishers and steer them away from predatory ones.
From an audio version of a peer-reviewed journal to 60-second crash courses, these are the best science podcasts.
The Open Access Button directly reachs out to scholars who publish their work in paywalled journals to ask them to legally share their research.
A peer-reviewed journal targeting computational research and encouraging the explicit replication of already published research.
Study finds that people aren’t great at spotting fake images.
The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.
From declining royal honour to refusing to sit for a portrait, correspondences show co-discoverer of evolutionary theory avoiding publicity.
One of the top journals in political science makes data-sharing and replication part of the publication process.
“My university's resources to combat abusive supervisors are laughably ineffective.”
Unencumbered dissemination of scientific research depends on a fair Internet.
Exciting new discoveries get all the attention — leaving just-as-important negative results in the dust. And fixing the problem is easier said than done.
The current funding climate certainly doesn’t favour changes, but that doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible.
How are scholars and researchers working to restore confidence in peer-reviewed science?
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
Supporting efforts to help do better science, build community around projects or develop tools.
Why breaking down walls between different academic disciplines could enhance our understanding of why research evidence does − or doesn’t − make it into policy.