On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order “ Restoring Gold Standard Science ” provides a directive to restore a higher ...

More than a year ago, computational scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory published a study ...

Using newly-collected data on the near-population of U.S. STEM PhD graduates since 1950, we examine who funds PhD training, how many graduates are trained in areas of strategic national importance, ...

Microplastics research faces standardization challenges as viral headlines about "plastic in your brain" overshadow ...

How can we decrease the amount of shoddy science and improve the rigor of research in the behavioral sciences?

ORNL scientists confirmed critical errors in standard water simulations, emphasizing the need for accurate time steps to ...

Researchers from several institutions in Brazil developed an enhanced protocol for extracting and analyzing proteins from human skin, combining chemical and mechanical lysis, SP3 sample preparation, ...

A team of McGill University researchers, working with colleagues in the United States and South Korea, has developed a new ...

Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the ...

A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.