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Facebook Rejects Female Engineers’ Code More Often

Facebook Rejects Female Engineers’ Code More Often

Female engineers who work at Facebook may face gender bias that prevents their code from being accepted at the same rate as male counterparts, according to internal company studies disclosed today.

LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract

LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract

Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit on February 27, 2017, against international science publisher Elsevier B.V. for breach of contract resulting from the publisher’s exclusion of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine from accessing content licensed by the LSU Libraries.

NIH to Get a $2 Billion Funding Boost as Congress Rebuffs Trump’s Call for Cuts

NIH to Get a $2 Billion Funding Boost as Congress Rebuffs Trump’s Call for Cuts

The NIH will get a $2 billion funding hike under a bipartisan spending agreement reached late Sunday, as Congress rebuffed Trump's call for cuts.

In Europe’s Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News

In Europe’s Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News

In the battle against fake news, a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town is on the front lines. Armed with a decade of machine learning expertise, he is part of a British start-up that will soon release an automated fact-checking tool ahead of the country’s election in early June.

China Pushes Ahead With Human Gene-Editing Trials

China Pushes Ahead With Human Gene-Editing Trials

Scientists at Nanjing University are using a gene-editing process called Crispr-Cas9 to hack into DNA—giving them the power to add, edit and delete genes with great precision.

EPA Website Removes Climate Science Site from Public View

EPA Website Removes Climate Science Site from Public View

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.

Trump and Brexit Opportunities for EU Science

Trump and Brexit Opportunities for EU Science

Ten years of Dutch participation in the ERC programme have been very rewarding for the small nation. The Dutch population accounts for only 3% of the total union but it receives an impressive 9% of the ERC grants. Is this a blessing or a curse?

Nature Journals Support the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Nature Journals Support the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Nature journals have signed up to the principles of the Declaration on Research Assessment agreement.

The Problem With the March for Science

The Problem With the March for Science

Our culture’s understanding of science is very, very broken, and on Saturday, it was impossible to ignore.

NSF’s Uphill Road to Making Prestigious Early Career Award More Diverse

NSF’s Uphill Road to Making Prestigious Early Career Award More Diverse

Applicants for the Waterman will get more time to demonstrate excellence.