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
Good news for fans of the scientific method: the largest and most influential university system on the planet will be giving out its research for free. After 6-year-long fight with the for-p... Read more
Open-access scientific publishing is gaining ground AT THE beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the government transmits taxpayers’ money to academic researchers... Read more
Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers can dissolve to release drugs, providing a platform for cheap, discrete and reversible protection The only way to protect against H... Read more
What newspapers don’t say matters as much as what they do IF ALL the stories in the newspapers claiming that a cure for cancer is just around the corner were true, the dread disease would ha... Read more
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other... Read more
Able to activate the innate immune system within just two hours of being administered A new discovery from SDSU’s Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center finds the synthetic protein EP67 helps ki... Read more
Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridg... Read more
The system is hidebound, expensive and elitist, they say. The New England Journal of Medicine marks its 200th anniversary this year with a timeline celebrating the scientific advances first... Read more
Everyone can see the resulting data and download it, including scientists A wealth of extra free genetic data could be at scientists’ fingertips if a new website allowing the public to... Read more
A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world’s most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such thin... Read more