Research-funding agencies that require scientists to declare at the proposal stage how their projects will be “transformative” may actually be hindering discovery, according to a study by Or... Read more
Surveillance has become so ubiquitous that it appears likely that Russia was caught in the act conspiring to fix the 2016 United States presidential election, and at least one of his staffer... Read more
Scientific controversies, from problems replicating results — such as with the now debunked association between autism and MMR vaccines — to researcher misconduct and sensationalism, have le... Read more
Scientists from the University of Granada and the Spanish National Research Council—members of the SCImago research group—have found that, worldwide, there are three major ‘clusters’ of coun... Read more
Since 1955, The Journal of Irreproducible Results has offered “spoofs, parodies, whimsies, burlesques, lampoons and satires” about life in the laboratory. Among its greatest hits: “Acoustic... Read more
“Real” costs of research not met by funding available to universities. Although more opportunity exists for university-based researchers to be innovative, and there is more financial support... Read more
New analysis shows Asia gaining, due to increased support from both government, industry The United States’ global share of biomedical research spending fell from 51 percent in 2007 to 45 pe... Read more
Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not “I SEE a train wreck looming,” warned Daniel Kahneman, an eminent psychologist, in an open letter las... Read more
A Case Western Reserve University professor wondered why some types of research were more apt to secure federal grants, while others—especially exploratory science—often didn’t. Using... Read more