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What makes a conflict of interest (COI) in science? Definitions differ, but broadly agree on one thing: an influence that can cloud a researcher’s objectivity. Nature and the other Nature Research journals are taking into account some of these non-financial sources of possible tension and conflict.
Scientists around the globe nowadays regularly take to the internet to scrutinize research after it’s been published — including to run their own analyses of the data and spot mistakes or fraud.
The South Korean government is expanding an investigation into researchers who named their children as co-authors on papers.
Ali Kaya says he used science to stay sane during his incarceration.
PubMed Commons has been a valuable experiment in supporting discussion of published scientific literature. The service was first introduced as a pilot project in the fall of 2013.
Some scientific journals are defusing the fear of getting “scooped” by making it easier for scientists to publish results that have appeared elsewhere.
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working
Some answers to the main challenges in moving toward Open Science.
Scientists often herald the role of chance in research. A project in Britain aims to test the popular idea with evidence.
Opioids. Fracking. Zika. GMOs. Scientists should be speaking up about all sorts of science-based issues that affect our lives. Especially now, when Trump administration officials tell us that climate change is debatable.
New Scientist, the world’s leading science and technology weekly magazine, is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Wilson as Editor.
New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible.
Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. PLOS Biology is now formalizing a policy whereby manuscripts that confirm or extend a recently published study are eligible for consideration.
Researchers say universities with generous policies employ twice the number of women professors.
But female scientists suffer when their research proposals are judged primarily on the strength of their CVs.
Women are significantly under-represented as last authors on high-quality research papers, according to a recent analysis.
It’s not true that efforts to reform research may “end up destroying new ideas before they are fully explored.” In defense of the replication movement.
The nearly 60,000-member American Geophysical Union took the bold step of revising its ethics policy to treat harassment, discrimination and bullying as scientific misconduct, with the same types of penalties for offenders. Other scientific organizations have not adopted that standard.
Replication is not enough. Marcus R. Munafò and George Davey Smith state the case for triangulation.
Switzerland appears to have three key factors for success in getting a surprisingly high proportion of its researchers’ articles cited in the scientific literature: it’s a small country, it’s research investment is large compared to other countries, and importantly, its hosting of the Large Hadron Collider is a drawcard for collaborative research.
US male PhD holders earn more than female counterparts across nearly every scientific field.
Poorer performance found to be based on less positive evaluation of female principal investigators, not differences in the quality of science
A small group of fewer than 30 universities are having a bigger impact on the inventions driving global economic growth than the world’s major industrialised nations.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is launching a new company under the Alphabet umbrella. It's called Chronicle, and the new company wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity.
