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The privacy backlash over Cambridge Analytica and Facebook may lead to explosive consequences for academics.
Research is the foundation for evidence-based policies. But because of funding prohibitions, there's little US research to inform the contentious debate around gun violence and gun control.
Right now, for the second time since 1931, there is no minister directly responsible for science in Australia.
When rewards such as funding of grants or publication in prestigious journals emphasize novelty at the expense of testing previously published results, science risks developing cracks in its foundation.
Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.
One of the best ways to shape public policy is for experts to submit detailed, technical information through the public comment process.
It might feel like rocket science, but scientists need to get better at explaining things to people outside academia.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
A new study confirms what many already know: Exxon for years sowed uncertainty and doubt about climate change in the public. Should scientists reject certain funding sources?
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.
To conserve Earth's remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.
There are many obstacles to bringing the power of 21st-century technology to the NHS. But that shouldn't stop us trying.
Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices that aim to make the whole endeavor more transparent, more reliable – and better.
We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.
This is the second part in a series on how we edit science, looking at hypothesis testing, the problem of p-hacking and how the peer review process works.
Today's robots and artificial intelligence look very different from the androids conceived by Isaac Asimov.
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?
We asked three experts for their takes.
We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.
