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Even in the best of times, 95% of Jan Hendrik Schon's experiments fizzled out. It's the other 5% that made him one of nanotechnology's brightest stars and the envy of [...]

The article discusses the announcement by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden that by the end of 2025, federal agencies must make papers that describe taxpayer-funded work freely available to the public as soon as the final peer-reviewed manuscript is published by a journal. Topics include the effort by officials to work out details of the policy, reaction from Heather Joseph of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, and the impact of the policy.

Gravitational lensing, now taken as an important astrophysical consequence of the general theory of relativity, was found even before this theory was formulated but was discarded as a speculative idea without any chance of empirical confirmation. Reconstruction of some of Einstein's research notes dating back to 1912 reveals that he explored the possibility of gravitational lensing 3 years before completing his general theory of relativity. On the basis of preliminary insights into this theory, Einstein had already derived the basic features of the lensing effect. When he finally published the very same results 24 years later, it was only in response to prodding by an amateur scientist., Sixty years ago, Einstein published a short note in Science entitled 'Lens-Like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field' (1). The note is often [...]

For more than a year, a study claiming to show that transgenic potatoes may make rats sick was at the center of a furious debate, even though its findings had [...]

Flat panel displays used in laptops and personal organizers are increasing both in resolution and in size, but, for applications requiring larger areas, such as newspapers, these expensive technologies are [...]

In an exhibition hall at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, a gigantic newspaper covering more than 5 square meters delivers the news to passersby in crisp black and [...]

Recent discoveries at Bell Laboratories--the research arm of Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, New Jersey--said to be of Nobel quality suddenly became mired in questions last week. Outside researchers presented [...]

The heat from the controversy alone is nearly enough to trigger a nuclear reaction. This week in Science (p. 1868), scientists led by nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan of Oak Ridge [...]

Atlanta - Twenty two years ago, Alfred Steinschneider made a splash in the medical community with a landmark paper detailing multiple cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in a [...]

Veteran physicists know that if you ask a simple question, nature by no means guarantees a simple answer. But even the most case-hardened researchers may be taken aback by the [...]

Arturo Casadevall, an expert on infections that prey on people with weakened immune systems, says he has worked with a 'wonderful compound' made at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). [...]

Amsterdam--LAST SPRING, HENK BUCK AND Jaap Groudsmit were the darlings of the Dutch media. buck, an organic chemist at Eindhoven Technical University, and Goudsmit, a retrovirologist at the University of [...]

The article reports that Egypt, Iran, Turkey and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa have increased their share of scholarly articles in international journals and citations from 1981 to 2019.

New questions about scientific validity are dogging South Korean cloning researcher Woo-Suk Hwang and his colleagues. On 4 December, Hwang notified Science editors that a figure in online material that [...]

May 2003 was an up-and-down month for Daniel Klessig. On 7 May, he resigned as president of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research in Ithaca, New York, for [...]

The furor continues over a legally embattled study of cancer risk among former IBM workers. Last week, 13 authors withdrew nine articles from a special issue of a journal on [...]

Last year scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine created a stir with a report in Science suggesting that people who use the party drug ecstasy may damage their [...]

The Big Problem of Brittle Books ALONG the corridor of chemical plants east of Houston, where the production of petrochemicals and plastics is the norm, the Library of Congress is [...]

Cincinnati -- For a modest set of test-tube experiments, a study published in Science last summer made quite a splash. It was part of a rush of work looking into [...]

The article discusses how preprints were pioneered by biologists with paper and postage. It is noted that biomedical scientists revealed biologist and science historian Matthew Cobb as a researcher who has traced an experiment from the 1960s, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, created a preprint exchange but shut it down when publishers objected.

The nascent "open-access" publishing movement got a qualified, but high-profile, endorsement this week. After a 7-month investigation, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of Great Britain, concluded that "the current system of scientific publishing is not providing the access needed for the progress of science," says committee chair Ian Gibson. In a 114-page report, the committee recommends that papers produced by publicly funded research be put in repositories at universities and research institutions, where they would be open to all, free of charge, soon after publication. It also says that online journals that have authors pay the cost of publication and that allow free access to all "could be viable," and it calls for a major study of the idea.

Harvard Researchers Retract Data in Immunology Paper Last spring, researchers from Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reported the discovery of a potentially exciting new molecule that appeared to amplify the vital [...]

Presents a list of papers and research reports authored by Chinese scientists most cited as references for other papers and research. Author; Institution; Journal where published; Topic.

Reports that the number of multiauthor research papers in the fields of life sciences has increased according to the study by the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information. Number of life science papers submitted in 1994; Nature of life science researches; Results of clinical trials; Emphasis on the recognition of people who contributed to the study; Comparison with other areas of studies.

Presents a chart of the top ten research topics for scientific papers in 1997. Dominant theme of apoptosis; Most cited researcher being Ronald M. Evans.

Lists the top four most cited research papers for 1994 according to the Institute for Scientific Information. Most cited scientist; Originating publications; Publication of rankings in ScienceWatch magazine.

In the News of the Week article 'Just how bad is dioxin?' (16 June, p. 1941) about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) reassessment of the risks of dioxin, Jocelyn Kaiser [...]

In this article, the author discusses the need of being well read and well informed for succeeding on one's career, citing his experience as a researcher. He states that he found some limitations in his previous research project and mentions journals read by him like "Inorganic Chemistry" and "The Journal of Physical Chemistry." He notes suggestions sought by students for succeeding in graduate studies.

A paper from the Open Science Collaboration (Research Articles, 28 August 2015, aac4716) attempting to replicate 100 published studies suggests that the reproducibility of psychological science is surprisingly low. We show that this article contains three statistical errors and provides no support for such a conclusion. Indeed, the data are consistent with the opposite conclusion, namely, that the reproducibility of psychological science is quite high., (Copyright © 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science.)