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Harmful research practices have done serious damage to Indigenous communities and created distrust. The Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden is one way to repair that damage.
As the climate crisis worsens, and after being ravaged by the COVID-19, it is paramount for Indonesia and G20 countries to strengthen global pandemic preparedness and climate action.
There is only a single mooring managed by French researchers that monitors the impacts of climate change on West African Canary Current.
It’s often assumed that people who identify as asexual are also ‘aromantic’ – that they aren’t interested in forming romantic relationships or aren’t capable of doing so.
If parents prefer to associate with other parents, what does that mean for people who have decided against having kids?
Any increase in people seeking help for gambling disorders could overwhelm the nation’s treatment centers, which already find themselves overextended and underfunded.
COVID-19 causes lung injury and lowers oxygen levels in patients because the SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks cells’ mitochondria. This attack is a throwback to a primitive war between viruses and bacteria.
Journals, museum collections and other historical sources can provide valuable data for modern ecological studies. But just because a source is old doesn’t make it useful.
Bourdain’s brother, Christopher, has called for the publisher, Simon & Schuster, to halt publication until the book’s ‘many errors were corrected.’
Canadian researchers are exploring unanswered questions about concussion: How to diagnose it accurately and quickly, how to predict outcomes and promote recovery, and how to prevent it altogether.
People are puzzled when they learn they share the same false memories with others. That’s partly because they assume that what they remember and forget ought to be based only on personal experience.
A major review of the Australian Research Council follows years of concerns about political interference, tedious red tape and inadequate funding.
Canadian scientists have made significant contributions during the pandemic response, including vital roles in developing COVID-19 vaccines. But underfunding puts the future of science in Canada at risk.
Renee Wegrzyn will lead the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which is tasked with speeding up how fast basic science is translated into real-world applications.
Some open access journals — those that don’t charge their readers a fee — require that researchers pay to publish with them. Removing author fees helps more researchers to publish their work.
Overcoming the access barriers and biases that underrepresented and underserved communities face could not only improve research participation but also improve care.
Nonhuman primates like rhesus monkeys share certain characteristics with people that may make them better study subjects than mice for research on neurodegenerative diseases.
A microscope slide that can diagnose cancer, mapping how what we eat affects the environment, and an effort to track bushfire damage are among the winners at Australia’s leading scientific awards.
The public’s lack of knowledge about animal research can cause a moral conflict. Institutions that use animals in research need to be more transparent about their practices.
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Professor of Marketing, The Ohio State University
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Research Education and Development, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Merlin Crossley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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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
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Assistant Professor of International Security, Institute of International & Civil Security (IICS), Khalifa University
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
