Science

Report from Elsevier suggests more collaboration with poorer nations is needed

Largest amount of cash handed out by research councils overall since 2014-15 brings an end to negative trend

Getting innovations to market can be a conundrum, but help and support is available for those limbering up for the knowledge exchange framework, says Siraj Ahmed Shaikh 

Ahead of his Vincent Briscoe Lecture, Bill Durodié calls on researchers to engage with issues of great social and technological ambition

Six out of 10 among 278 anonymous respondents admit to at least one incident of misconduct

New programme hopes to take Israel-US 'academic friendship to the next level’

Advancing capabilities of stem cells could mean researchers run into legal difficulties once more, European academies warn

Researchers blame ‘old boy’ networks and evolutionary history for male tendency to stick together

Manolis Mavrikis enjoys a reasoned appeal to universities to meet the teaching challenges posed by AI

University of Maryland student claims top prize for explaining thesis on parasites affecting bee decline

The inventor with a penchant for clocks talks KitKat wrappers and kettles

Go with Alice and Bob to visit mysterious objects that also come in white, says Cait MacPhee

Marcus Chown praises a study full of humour and enthusiasm that journeys to the far frontier of the known

Accreditation of research methods should be a mandatory requirement for publication in journals, says Peter Thompson

Book of the week: No longer young, not yet old, the middle-aged academic sees the world askew, says Joe Moran

On International Stammering Awareness Day, two academics who stammer explain why higher education must do more to support those with this ‘invisible disability’

Data suggest that more universities – and subject areas – will need to succeed on the world stage to sustain the country’s rise 

Former chief of staff at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy says academics must put aside fears of ‘partisanship’

Squeamishness about advocacy is out of date. Evidence and freedom of enquiry must be defended, says Aymen Idris

After this year’s laureates were announced, 50 winners share the secrets of their success

Petition with 80,000 signatures was set to be presented as part of mass protest outside country’s National Congress

Is there anything new in technological advantage adding to sporting prowess, asks Lincoln Allison

Looking outward may give us a better understanding of the progression of life and the inevitability of natural selection, says Tiffany Taylor

Book of the week: Richard Joyner on how insomnia damages our well-being – and how to get a good night’s rest

Researchers Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne recognised for their work on the international Ligo project 

What brings joy? This week, as part of our week of articles on #HEhappiness, academics from five disciplines address this most difficult of questions

Breaking free from Madrid may reduce bureaucracy for universities, but could endanger funding

How one Nobel winner instilled belief in Erika Mancini

Ministers are foolish to abandon the conclusions of the 1971 review that has informed UK research policy for 45 years, say Donald Braben and John Dainton 

Are humans just a ‘pack of neurons’? Steven Rose is frustrated by a poorly argued challenge to the materialist consensus in neuroscience

John Gilbey praises an entertaining text that draws on popular culture to explain the essentials of computer science to the general reader

Inaugural UK-US science deal will include investment in two major projects Stateside

New agreement could take cooperation to a new level

Initiative urges government researchers to send findings through encrypted channels to ensure their preservation

The whole Science and Technology Committee should be disbanded, and the process of establishing it restarted, says Dame Athene Donald

Op-ed on statues of eugenicists and researchers who denied rights to non-white people branded ‘disastrous’

Times Higher Education will publish expanded league tables for 11 different subject areas

‘Artificial barriers’ such as Brexit ‘should be resisted‘, Nobel laureate tells event hosted by King’s College London

Wise and honourable assessors of grant applications must be allowed to use their discretion, says Sui Huang

Instagram posts aim to overcome perception that researchers are typically male and white

James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment

Free market ideology has contributed to ‘vaccine hesitancy’, endangering us all, says Harry Collins

It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh

A study of snakebite gives a good overview of the development of the written scientific method, says Geoffrey Cantor

Dame Sue Black’s pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field

Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation

Joanna Dally and Frances Downey imagine the research culture of the future

More than half of doctoral candidates surveyed at one university reported “abnormal” levels of stress and depression

Expanding degree apprenticeships will strengthen universities’ important role in improving their local communities, says Dawn Morley

Steven Yearley considers the argument that metropolitan centres, not nation states, hold the power to take the lead on climate change

Book of the week: Human actions have killed off some species but may be kick-starting new ones, writes Jules Pretty

UK leads drive towards more open way of sharing science, says Jo Johnson

Discipline at ‘critical point’ in UK as universities struggle to replace retiring staff, says report led by Newcastle vice-chancellor

Richard Joyner enjoys a tour of the novel substances that might give tomorrow its form, including a substance seven times less dense than air

It is not Luddism to be cautious about destroying an academic publishing industry that has served us well, says Marilyn Deegan

Book of the week: Apps are taking us places, fast – but do we always want to go? John Gilbey considers the value of rapidly changing tech

Forty per cent of state-funded student places to be axed also

Monash-Warwick Alliance graduate researched chemistry PhD in England and Australia

Tony Hey charts the progress of the US and UK Open Science movement 

UK government ‘negligent’ to begin negotiations to leave EU without key role being filled, campaigners say