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2014 Golden Goose Award winners

2014 Golden Goose Award winners

The Golden Goose Award is a new award that recognizes scientists and engineers whose federally funded research has had significant human and economic benefits.

Safe European home

Safe European home

I have a dream…. that one day top‐quality science will be practised all over the world. Yes, I know: it's just another of my silly dreams.

About the size of Google Scholar

About the size of Google Scholar

The emergence of academic search engines has revived and increased the interest in the size of the academic web, since their aspiration is to index the entirety of current academic knowledge.

Single market for research depends on national reforms,

Single market for research depends on national reforms,

Reforms must now be implemented at the Member State level to make ERA work.

University of California plans Venture-Capital fund for campus startups

University of California plans Venture-Capital fund for campus startups

Investment pool, at $250 Million, would be among biggest targeted for student and faculty research

What makes a global top 10 university?

What makes a global top 10 university?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is in first place in the latest league table of the world's best universities.

A pioneer as elusive as his particle

A pioneer as elusive as his particle

When the Nobel Prize in Physics was to be announced, Peter Higgs decided it would be a good day to get out of town. Unfortunately, his car wasn't working.

How can we trust scientific publishers with our work if they won't play fair?

How can we trust scientific publishers with our work if they won't play fair?

I have never liked how scientific journals charge us to read the research that we produce. But that is another debate for another day. What I really hate is how they abuse this power to stifle debate in the name of their business interests.