Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...

Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.

Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

Artificial intelligence software is increasingly involved in reviewing papers, provoking interest and unease.

Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.

A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in living costs between countries.

Pediatric Research - Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models

From a recent paper on social media extremism and perception titled " Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms" b…

Younger Britons are the most likely to use Americanisms

Patients’ safety is being compromised because a growing number of doctors are feeling severely tired at work, medical defence experts have warned. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that longer hou...

Trump has promised to cut off funding, claiming nation discriminates against white citizens

Researchers want firms to be more transparent about the electricity demands of artificial intelligence.

Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Predatory Journals List

Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG), the vaccine for tuberculosis, has immunomodulatory effects that may underpin its off-target effects on infectious disease risk and vaccine responses. This study used bl....

I have been at WHO for over 10 years. Like my colleagues, I have worked my butt off day and night to fight Covid and work towards universal access to health care. This place frustrates me every day.

OBJECTIVES. The primary aims of this study were to determine the volume of blood submitted for culture in routine clinical practice and to establish the proportion of blood cultures with a blood volum...

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them.

Multiple diseases in children have been linked to manufactured synthetic chemicals, which are subject to few legal or policy constraints. A revamping of law and restructuring of the chemical indust...

With U.S. politics threatening to erase the gains of science, reduce access to vaccines, and undermine their vast public health benefit, what is a conscientious pediatrician to do?

The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have released LSSU's newest annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.