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China Faces Science Reform Challenges, Including Favoritism

China Faces Science Reform Challenges, Including Favoritism

In this Policy Forum, Cong Cao and Richard P. Suttmeier highlight the immense work and challenges China will encounter as it attempts to reform its scientific and technological development strategy.

Springer Nature Becomes Largest Publisher to Open up All Reference Lists

Springer Nature Becomes Largest Publisher to Open up All Reference Lists

Working closely with Crossref, Springer Nature will make the metadata for reference lists available across all academic books and owned journals.

Brazil Now A Global Leader In Gender Equality In Science

Brazil Now A Global Leader In Gender Equality In Science

Brazilian women are leading the world when it comes to a key measurement on science, surpassing the ranking of the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Photo Project Spotlights Scientists from Under-Represented Groups

Photo Project Spotlights Scientists from Under-Represented Groups

Campaign on Wikipedia seeks to reveal the hidden faces of female scientists and those from minority ethnic groups.

Rising to the Challenge as US States Turn the Screw on Science Education

Rising to the Challenge as US States Turn the Screw on Science Education

Researchers everywhere should pay more attention to how their subject is presented.

Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data — If They Can Find It

Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data — If They Can Find It

It is illegal to destroy government data, but agencies can make it more difficult to find by revising websites and creating other barriers to the underlying information.

Trump’s New Travel Ban Still Sabotages Science and Tech

Trump’s New Travel Ban Still Sabotages Science and Tech

Its prospects for keeping dangerous people out are dubious at best. But would-be immigrants in science and tech will almost certainly be turned away.

This Year's Best Science Photos Are So Good They're Basically Art

This Year's Best Science Photos Are So Good They're Basically Art

The finalists of the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards have been announced, showcasing the best science-related imagery from the past year. This year’s crop features a bioluminescent squid, a high-tech contact lens, and a microscopic ‘brain’ on a chip.

U of California, Berkeley, to Delete Publicly Available Educational Content

U of California, Berkeley, to Delete Publicly Available Educational Content

Starting March 15, the university will begin removing more than 20,000 video and audio lectures from public view as a result of a Justice Department accessibility order.

Springer Nature Becomes Largest Publisher to Open Up

Springer Nature Becomes Largest Publisher to Open Up

Springer Nature becomes the largest academic publisher to open up reference lists to advance data discovery and reuse, effective as of today. Working closely

How The Fallout From Trump's Travel Ban Is Reshaping Science

How The Fallout From Trump's Travel Ban Is Reshaping Science

Researchers are cutting short travel, ending collaborations and rethinking their US ties.

Scientists Are Standing Up to Trump Because They've Always Stood Up to Bullshit

Scientists Are Standing Up to Trump Because They've Always Stood Up to Bullshit

There’s this pervasive idea that science is somehow exempt from the ugly political world in which the rest of us wallow. But even a perfunctory look at the history of American science shows that this hasn’t always been the case.

Let’s Stand Together to Promote It Worldwide

Let’s Stand Together to Promote It Worldwide

Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them.

Cutting Science Funding Means Sacrificing the US's Future

Cutting Science Funding Means Sacrificing the US's Future

President Donald Trump plans to change to slash spending on basic science by 10.5 percent in 2018.

Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data

Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data

Editor asked to resign from journal for saying he’ll review only papers whose data he can see.

Horizon 2020 Rules Changed to Tackle Pay Gap

Horizon 2020 Rules Changed to Tackle Pay Gap

The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.