From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

The Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a request for information seeking public input on federal policy changes that could support U.S. scientific leadership and accelerate technology ...

The influential of large language models (LLMs) on social science research is already staggering, and only growing. In many ways, this is not surprising: LLMs are uniquely flexible, easy-to-access, ...

For the past 40 years, the research published by academics in UK universities has been subject to various evaluations by funding bodies. From the first 'Research Selectivity Exercise' conducted in ...

Twenty years ago, John P. A. Ioannidis published an essay with the eye-catching title “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”. It has since been accessed millions of times and accumulated ...

A small band of analysts working within European universities and funders is using experiments, surveys and other methods to improve how their institutions work, from better distributing money to ...

Ambika Grover ‘27, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a joint concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Leverett House and a student researcher in the Patel Lab. Recent cases of ...

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On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue ...

EU countries and the European Commission aren’t experimenting enough with new ways to fund research, according to a member of the expert group advising the Commission on how to design the next ...