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

There are few scientific methods more elegantly simple than "just sprinkle it on top." Researchers at Tohoku University and ...

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Scientific discovery often takes thoughtful reflection, which can be time consuming, fraught with missteps that guide and refocus the research process. During the COVID pandemic, real-time ...

Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The ...

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

Sheldon H. Jacobson President Donald Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” provides a directive to restore a higher standard for scientific research and discovery. Yet despite the ...

Efforts have been underway for years to improve the replicability of research studies, but some are skeptical of the US government’s motivations to help ...

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 ...

Is Cape Town hiding its water woes? An explosive UCT-led study has alleged that the city routinely downplays pollution, manipulating scientific data.