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NIH Tweaks Plan to Award More Grants to Younger Researchers

NIH Tweaks Plan to Award More Grants to Younger Researchers

Agency will no longer set a 10-year cutoff for eligibility.

Brexit Agreement Would Allow EU Scientists to Stay in United Kingdom

Brexit Agreement Would Allow EU Scientists to Stay in United Kingdom

Larger political deal achieves a long-standing goal of scientific community, but hard tasks lie ahead.

Controversial Software Is Proving Surprisingly Accurate at Spotting Errors in Psychology Papers

Controversial Software Is Proving Surprisingly Accurate at Spotting Errors in Psychology Papers

When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.

NIH Institute Directors Stand Firm on Not Renewing Focused Firearm Research Program

NIH Institute Directors Stand Firm on Not Renewing Focused Firearm Research Program

More members of Congress ask agency why program lapsed.

A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology

A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology

Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."

Key Legislator Tells Trump Officials to Back off on Proposed Overhead Spending Cap for NIH

Key Legislator Tells Trump Officials to Back off on Proposed Overhead Spending Cap for NIH

House Republican says cap on indirect costs would be unreasonable and ultimately destructive.

Who's the Most Influential Biomedical Scientist? Computer Program Guided by Artificial Intelligence Says It Knows

Who's the Most Influential Biomedical Scientist? Computer Program Guided by Artificial Intelligence Says It Knows

Semantic Scholar search tool expands to include biomedical science literature.

Publishers Take ResearchGate to Court

Publishers Take ResearchGate to Court

Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic networking site, alleging copyright infringement on a mass scale.