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Critics Challenge NIH Finding That Bigger Labs Aren't Necessarily Better

Critics Challenge NIH Finding That Bigger Labs Aren't Necessarily Better

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs.

Physicists Accelerate Plans for a New Large Hadron Collider Three Times as Big

Physicists Accelerate Plans for a New Large Hadron Collider Three Times as Big

An international league of scientists is kicking off the decades-long process of developing the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

Trump Keeps Francis Collins as NIH Director

Trump Keeps Francis Collins as NIH Director

Dr. Francis Collins, a holdover from the Obama administration, will remain director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced.

The Mathematicians Who Want to Save Democracy

The Mathematicians Who Want to Save Democracy

With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.

NSF Bio Directorate Announces Cancellation of #DDIG Program

NSF Bio Directorate Announces Cancellation of #DDIG Program

NSF’s Directorate of Biological Sciences just announced that they are getting rid of the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) program.

Dozens of Recent Clinical Trials May Contain Wrong or Falsified Data, Claims Study

Dozens of Recent Clinical Trials May Contain Wrong or Falsified Data, Claims Study

Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials

Dutch Contracts Have to Be Disclosed

Dutch Contracts Have to Be Disclosed

The open access contracts between the Dutch universities and publishers Elsevier and Springer have to be publicly disclosed. That is the verdict of the committee charged with considering the appeal of the publishers against a freedom of information request.

5 Million Euros to Fund Blockchain Surveillance Research

5 Million Euros to Fund Blockchain Surveillance Research

A group of EU government agencies, law enforcement groups and academic researchers are partnering on a new digital currency surveillance project.

Pilot Programme Encourages Researchers to Share the Code

Pilot Programme Encourages Researchers to Share the Code

New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’. 

NIH Overhead Plan Draws Fire

NIH Overhead Plan Draws Fire

President Donald Trump's administration has brought a long-simmering debate over how the U.S. government supports university research back to a boil.