Confessions of a Wasteful Scientist
Three of my projects appeared last week on a senator's list of questionable research. Allow me to explain...
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The Paradox of Precision Medicine
Early attempts to tailor disease treatment to individuals based on their DNA have met with equivocal success, raising concerns about a push to scale up such efforts.
The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain"
Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.
China's bold push into genetically customized animals
New kinds of dogs, goats and monkeys are being made quickly, although scientists voice worries about ethics and whether the methods should be used on humans.
Why the Human Brain Project went wrong
Two years in, a $1-billion-plus effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Was it poor management, or is something fundamentally wrong with Big Science?
How to combat distrust of science
The surprising power of the psychology of consensus.
Science research needs an overhaul
The current incentive structure often leads to dead-end studies-but there are ways to fix the problem.
The world's largest 2-way dialogue between scientists and the public
A new interview series on the Reddit social news site this year allows scientists to answer questions whose responses are read by millions of readers.
How nations fare in PhDs by sex
How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.
Twitter to release all tweets to scientists
Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.
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