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Fourteen climate researchers, including six from U.S. universities, have been selected for French President Emmanuel Macron’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” initiative. The scientists applied to move to France to carry out climate science projects in the country’s top research laboratories.
The results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by Research!America showed that 67% of respondents had a positive image of science and indeed thought that public policy should be based on the best science available.
Government funding is a relatively recent phenomenon, but scientific progress is not.
How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?
Shouldn't all research be, first and foremost, accessible? Accessibility underpins equality.
2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome
Despite a growing number of female political leaders across the globe, women are still in a minority when it comes to positions of power in world politics.
Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.
On how scientific publishers are struggling to maintain their stranglehold over scientists.
This transformation will be a huge undertaking for all those involved, and exactly what these new forms of publication will look like none of us yet knows.
In an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH, offered a familiar warning to lawmakers considering future appropriations for scientific research.
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
