High-profile Effort to Tackle Academia's Fake-paper Problem
Paper mills are polluting the literature - a group will study them in detail to stem the flow of bogus research.
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What Counts As Plagiarism? Harvard President's Resignation Sparks Debate
Allegations against Harvard President, Claudine Gay, have left researchers arguing over academic standards and practices.
The Science Stories You Missed over the Holiday Period
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science.
How Sharing Your Science in an Opinion Piece Can Boost Your Career
Don't rely solely on academic papers to raise your professional profile. General readers are interested in your opinions, too.
The Science Events to Watch for in 2024
Advanced AI tools, Moon missions and ultrafast supercomputers are among the developments set to shape research in the coming year.
Has Your Research Influenced Policy? Use This Free Tool to Check
Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited.
How a Bullying Scandal Closed a Historic Astronomy Department
At Lund University in Sweden this week, astronomers moved out of a building that was custom-built to hold telescopes and other artefacts from their 350 years of history, and they relocated to a physics building down the road. That’s because the astronomy department no longer exists, having been dissolved in the wake of a bullying scandal.
Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data
Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data
Despite the importance of ambitious policy action for addressing climate change, large and systematic assessments of public policies and their design are lacking as analysing text manually is labour-intensive and costly. POLIANNA is a dataset of policy texts from the European Union (EU) that are annotated based on theoretical concepts of policy design, which can be used to develop supervised machine learning approaches for scaling policy analysis.
Is the EU-Africa Innovation Plan Toothless?
Meaningful investment might be essential for fixing power imbalances in science and innovation.
A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19 - Nature
India Struggles to Turn Science into Societal Benefits
Entrepreneurial researchers can find solutions for Indian problems, but the lack of a spin-off culture means the country loses out.
Massive Shake-Up of French Science System is Biggest in Decades
Billion-euro plan includes greater oversight for national research institutes and the creation of a top-level council to advise the president on science
Surge in Number of 'Extremely Productive' Authors Concerns Scientists
Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.
Early-career US National Institutes of Health Researchers Vote Overwhelmingly to Form Union
'My Collaborations Would See Me Jailed': Australian Researchers Fear Proposed New Laws
'My Collaborations Would See Me Jailed': Australian Researchers Fear Proposed New Laws
Scientists have reacted with alarm at a proposal by the Australian Department of Defence to control information sharing under which technology with potential military use would need authorization to be shared with non-Australian colleagues.
'Disruptive' Science More Likely from Teams Who Work in the Same Place
Analysis of millions of papers shows that farflung collaborators produce fewer big breakthroughs than groups working together in person.
Global Science is Splintering into Two - and This is Becoming a Problem
The United States and China are pursuing parallel scientific tracks. To solve crises on multiple fronts, the two roads need to become one.
How the 'Right to Science' Can Help Us Overcome the Many Crises We Face Today
How the 'Right to Science' Can Help Us Overcome the Many Crises We Face Today
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - proclaimed 75 years ago - describes science as fundamental to humanity. Upholding this right has never been more relevant than it is now.
'Politicians Don't Understand Science': Advisers Give Evidence at UK COVID Inquiry
'Politicians Don't Understand Science': Advisers Give Evidence at UK COVID Inquiry
Patrick Vallance, Chris Witty and others reflect on advising the UK government during the ongoing investigation into the country's pandemic response.
Code Sharing in the Spotlight
The Year of Open Science has highlighted the importance of sharing the code associated with peer-reviewed manuscripts. We at Nature Computational Science provide support - via policies and implementations within our submission system - to facilitate this task.
Yes to Global Standards for Research - As Long As They Are Truly Global
Yes to Global Standards for Research - As Long As They Are Truly Global
Guidelines for research can level the playing field for scientists in low-resource settings - but diverse voices are needed to ensure that people worldwide can actually follow them.
The Israel-Hamas Conflict: Voices from Scientists on the Front Lines
The Israel-Hamas Conflict: Voices from Scientists on the Front Lines
The deadly 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, and Israel's bombardment of Gaza, have upended lives - including those of researchers throughout the region.
One-third of Indian STEM Conferences Have No Women
Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculty are rare, and women speaking at conferences are even rarer.
Researcher Resignations from UKRI Mount Amid Israel-Hamas Row
Academics are furious that the funder complied with a demand from the government to suspend an advisory panel over comments made about the conflict.
United States and India Are Becoming Science Partners of Choice
United States and India Are Becoming Science Partners of Choice
... but collaborations are still hampered by bureaucracy and underfunding.
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