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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the creation of a Scientific Advisory Board “to advise UN leaders on ... how to harness the benefits of these advances and mitigate potential risks.”
Scientific fraud has been a problem from the beginning of documented science - but in recent years the issue has exploded.
Ambition is there but resources may not be, African academics warn ahead of summit.
A summit, entitled “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”, took place at CERN from 10 to 14 July, bringing together representatives from 70 scientific institutions to discuss how to develop and implement open science policies across the globe.
Creativity is critical to the future of work. The Future of Jobs Report 2023 ranked analytical thinking and creative thinking as the first and second most important skills that workers will need to have in the future.
Concerns include confidentiality, accuracy, and "originality of thought".
House defense bill would vastly expand information that must be disclosed and posted online.
Well-designed policies alone cannot prevent social harm from new technologies. Instead, watchdogs must have tools to scrutinize how such policies are implemented, paving the road for digital accountability.
China's government uses a variety of diplomatic tools to pursue its foreign policy aims including negotiating and signing formal bilateral science and technology.
Researchers have explored the creation and implications of Sweden's 'green infrastructure' policy, an approach identified by the European Commission as a potential strategy to protect biodiversity and create healthy, resilient ecosystems.
Yue Xiong is a microbiologist who emigrated to the United States from China to complete his doctorate in 1989. He is the chief scientific officer of pharmaceutical company Cullgen and was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article follows Yue Xiong’s quest for education and is based on an interview from the Science History Institute’s oral history archive conducted in 2000 by historian William Van Benschoten.
South Africa’s Lise Korsten to lead unsettled continental science body. The African Academy of Sciences has elected a new governing council headed by a woman—the first in the organisation’s 37-year history.
A new study shows that the publication records of research groups are not impacted following big changes in lab safety protocols.
