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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 5, 2016
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 1, 2016
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 29, 2016
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,…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 24, 2016
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 22, 2016
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
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 10, 2016
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 3, 2016
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 3, 2016
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 3, 2016
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…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 31, 2016