Over 1000 researchers in Canada are protesting the changes in the peer review system rolled out by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), a federal funding agency that supports biomedical…
Success in academia is increasingly tied to public engagement, and scientists have to engage with the media to promote their research and explain its significance to the public. This online training…
Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) has sent massive shockwaves throughout the world. While the economists and politicians are worried about the economic stability of the nation post the…
The CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology is inching closer towards clinical trials with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) approving a proposal to use it in cancer treatment.On June 21,…
One of the most challenging problems that academia is dealing with is misconduct in research. However, tackling the ever-increasing incidents of misconduct is challenging because of the complexity of…
Proposals are under way to name the four new additions to the periodic table, which were confirmed in December 2015 by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The
The Shaw Prize is a highly esteemed international award that recognizes the achievements of scholars in the fields of astronomy, life sciences and medicine, and mathematical sciences. The Shaw…
Irreproducibility of published results is considered a modern-day crisis that science is facing. However, the lack of a commonly agreed definition of reproducibility and the various opinions on what…
A report released by Sense of Science on 2 June has revealed that the UK government has no account of the research it has funded to develop policies and has delayed the publishing of several findings…
Europe’s Competitiveness Council has declared that all online research papers supported by public and public-private funding will be made freely accessible by the year 2020. Competitiveness Council…