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A documentary in which the disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield alleges that a link between vaccines and autism has been covered up by the US government is to be shown at the Cannes film festival.
The Interdisciplinary Research Collection highlights 11 articles that exemplify the diversity of interdisciplinary research published in PLOS ONE.
Yes, collective missteps happen. But if anything, history shows how hard it is to get scientists to agree in the first place.
10 stories from users of the Open Access Button on why they need research to be freely available.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised for health reforms in his own country, takes the helm at a critical time.
At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project called Project Cupcake was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.
It’s another blow to an industry that has been hammered in the U.S. and Europe, leaving a huge opportunity for China to emerge as a global leader in nuclear technology.
Is there an alternative to the standard academic career path that would actually make research work better?
The role and the impact of citizen science in today’s world.
Is it reasonable to employ the ResearchGate Score as evidence of scholarly reputation?
The blockchain technology that underpins cryptographic currencies can support sustainability by building trust and avoiding corruption, explains Guillaume Chapron.
If you took Psychology 101 in college, you probably had to enroll in an experiment to fulfill a course requirement or to get extra credit.
Technology, innovation and digitalisation must be seen as sources of income and not as costs to a business.
Recommendations on best practice
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
Molecular geneticist and university administrator Frédérique Vidal is France’s new minister for higher education, research, and innovation.
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn’t need dark matter to work.
ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.
Charlie Rapple highlights the case of Diego Gómez, a Columbian researcher facing prison for sharing someone else's thesis via Scribd.
A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.
Some of the world’s largest research funders and NGOs today agreed to adopt the WHO's strong standards on clinical trial transparency.
Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.
An amusing case of plagiarism in a paper about plagiarism.
Relying just on numbers to assess gender equality is insufficient because companies and researchers are smart enough to game the system.
The imprimatur bestowed by peer review has a history that is both shorter and more complex than many scientists realize.
