Proposed new rules would pull all federal financing from hospitals that continue to provide gender treatments for adolescents.

On this day, 18 December 2015, the alderman responsible for the reconstruction of Utrecht’s Station Area invited two young girls to press a button. They started a fountain in the newly restored canal, which had been completed and filled with water just two days earlier. I have written extensively about this Canal–Road–Canal project in the past, but to mark its tenth anniversary I decided to make an additional video — one that largely speaks for itself.

Who are public-good curators and how can they help improve public trust in science? Learn more in this interview with Tracey Brown (Sense about Science) and Camille Gamboa (Sage) about their recently ...

The Erasmus University has almost reached 100 per cent open access for its output of 2024, but not quite yet. Erica Yu explains what it means for research to be open access, and what the University Li...

The digital age has fundamentally transformed the academic library, with the acquisition of e-books and online resources becoming the dominant force in collection development. The sheer volume, eas…

The Sun’s fiery surface, a tattooed tardigrade, rare red lightning and more.

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Today's guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.

This series aims to introduce the beauty, complexity, and continuing significance of Dante’s Divina Commedia through readings of the text, in the original and in translation.

This article offers a reasoned call for urgent reform of the academic journal publishing system. It focuses on the ethical flaws of the current for-profit model. This model enables the transfer of pub...

Richard Horton's view that there is not a research integrity crisis1 contradicts the initiation of the Lancet Commission on Research Integrity, which states “There is clearly a crisis in research inte...

Der binne mear Fryske boeken as ea ferkocht yn de Fryske boekewike. Dat sukses wurdt foar in grut part taskreaun oan it kadoboek dat skreaun is troch Anne-Goaitske Breteler.

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Rather than just bolting on AI to existing publication workflows,there is a real opportunity to rethink and redesign them for human–AI collaboration. Some thoughts on what that looks like in practice.

How does bad science get published, and why does it matter? This week’s conversation with Dr. James Heathers PhD, Director of the Medical Evidence Project , a new initiative launched by the Center f...

Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

In an analysis of nearly 900 retracted medical-research studies, the number of female authors is disproportionately low.