When it comes to climate change, deforestation and toxic waste, the assumption has been that conservative views on these topics are intractable.

Still a little groggy from my return from Africa, I came across a serendipitously came across a tweet - A Call for Proposals for the 2013 ...

Those wishing to maximize the benefits of public research must require more than free access, says Cameron Neylon [mdash] they must facilitate reuse.

It's a detective story with a century-old crime: The forgery of a supposed missing link in human evolution that went undetected for decades.

The agency may start a pilot program that would require reviewers to evaluate grant applications without knowing who had submitted them.

The bioinformatics expert says scientists should be trained in effective visual communication

So, you’re a chemist and you’ve finally decided to find out what all the fuss is about with this thing called Twitter. You decide to sign up, but, for whatever reason, you don’t f...

Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery.

As 2012 is winding down, I thought I’d take a look back at volume 4 of the journal. This isn’t a terribly in-depth analysis, and it’s based on what we’ve published rather than what was submitted, but you might find it a little bit interesting.

Although glutamate was discovered in 1908, it wasn't until the 1980s that it came to be described as 'umami', the fifth flavor. It is a ...

Not all research is easily justified—but what do you do when you can't even justify it to yourself?