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The total number of papers published by researchers during their early career period (first fifteen years) has increased in recent decades, but so has their average number of co-authors.
Where once scientists used to be solitary creatures, today science is a highly collaborative affair, and the latest research in ecology is no exception.
Conference aims to raise awareness of shared resources for building lab equipment.
Silicon Valley’s hoodie-wearing tech entrepreneurs are the poster kids of innovation. But the innovators who are really changing the world are more likely to wear labcoats and hold government-related jobs in Grenoble, Munich or Tokyo. That's the conclusion of Reuters’ Top 25 Global Innovators – Government, a list that identifies and ranks the publicly funded institutions doing the most to advance science and technology.
Women do more of the day-to-day labor of science while men are credited with more of the big-picture thinking.
Science self-regulation allows detecting more quickly and accurately methodological flaws, fraudulent results and conflicts of interest that may affect the credibility of the discovery. However, it also opens room for disproportionate reactions.
Three UK neuroscientists jointly win the €1 million European Brain Prize for their work on memory.
Women have come a long way in science, but plenty of work remains. After all, gender bias in science doesn't happen in a vacuum.
Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.
The new website sciencegeist.com curates news and opinions about on-going science policy issues.
Ben Goldacre on why a ban on researchers speaking to politicians and policymakers fails the taxpayers who fund them
From multicoloured scans of the human body, to vivid photos of creatures up close - the finalists of the annual Wellcome Image Awards.
Jisc Digifest hears openness could bring benefits, but some cite plagiarism risks
Limited institutional resources mean that single parents often need a network of support to further their scientific careers.
The Royal Society’s new campaign highlights the importance of life outside the laboratory
Is science quite as scientific as it's supposed to be? After years of covering science in the news, Alok Jha began to wonder whether science is as rigorous as it should be.
A review on the open citation advantage, media attention for publicly available research, collaborative possibilities, and special funding opportunities to show how open practices can give researchers a competitive advantage.
Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for certainty: the misuse of the P value is contributing to the number of research findings that cannot be reproduced warns the American Statistical Association.
Perspectives: Structural biologist suggests that chemists can help redefine good research behavior by telling the whole story
Researchers, publishers and representatives of funding agencies gathered at ASAPBio to discuss the use of preprint publications in biology. It became clear through the discussion on Twitter with #ASAPBio that many were unclear as to the purpose of the meeting, how preprints could help or hinder junior scientists, or even what preprints are.
Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from early stages of research…
Tianhui Michael Li and Allison Bishop write about the overemphasis on calculus in high school and college math courses. Statistics, linear algebra and algorithmic thinking are more valuable in the digital age.
New Chinese 5-year plan promises 2.5% R&D:GDP ratio by 2020, up from 2.05% in 2014.
How do retractions influence the scholarly impact of retracted papers, authors, and institutions; and how does this influence propagate to the wider academic community through scholarly associations?
An influential psychological theory, borne out in hundreds of experiments, may have just been debunked. How can so many scientists have been so wrong?
A look at the PLoS ONE paper on a hand designed by “the Creator”
