In an interview, scholar Alyssa Collins explains how her time spent plumbing the sci fi writer’s papers left her stunned by the breadth of her interests and the depth of her scientific knowledge.
It can be painful for researchers to read harshly worded criticism of their work from peer reviewers.
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Peer review of research sounds like it should be a conversation between equals. Instead, it can be patronizing, demanding and simply unkind. A group of journal editors thinks this should change.
Molecular research like that conducted at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases in Nigeria is key to medical breakthroughs.
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We often imitate styles of speech we hear – what’s known as ‘linguistic convergence.’ But a researcher wanted to see if we alter our speech based on the mere expectation of how someone will sound.
Biomedical studies have traditionally used male animals and men as research subjects. That is a problem for everyone because for many diseases, there are sex differences in how they affect people.
Illustration by O. Sudomora for the children’s story ‘Bim-bom, dzelen-bom!’
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The government’s funding boost is a step in the right direction. This is how it will help research avoid the ‘valley of death’ which is the place between the lab and marketplace.
Knowledge production in Global South countries is often centered on Western theories and colonial perspectives.
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Adedayo Olofinyehun, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) and Abiodun Egbetokun, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM)
Social scientists in Nigeria communicate their research results more among themselves than they do to policymakers and the general public.
Preclinical research — the kind that takes place before testing on humans — often guides decisions about which potential treatments should continue to clinical trials. But attempts to replicate 50 studies found the odds of getting the same results were only about 50-50.
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Preclinical studies are an important part of biomedical research, often guiding future trials in humans. Failure to replicate research results suggests a need to increase the quality of studies.
Ragweed pollen, instigator of headaches and itchy eyes across the U.S.
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Rising temperatures mean longer, earlier pollen seasons, but the bigger problem is what carbon dioxide will do to the amount of pollen being released. A 200% increase is possible this century.
Demonstrators march at a rally in support of Ukraine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. on Feb. 28.
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Canada and its universities have roles to play in providing safe spaces to scholars in regions where research is under threat due to conflict and repression.
Macaques are regarded as alien species in Mauritius.
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria