Global data gaps highlight why citizen science has now become essential for official statistics

For more than three decades, DHS provided vital demographic and health data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition in over ...
STAT

Basic science publications have been falling for a decade. NIH budget cut would likely accelerate the decline

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The number of basic science papers published by recipients of ...
Inside Higher Ed

Can We Trust Social Science Research?

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...
Nature

These are the 10 best countries for physical-sciences research

China has continued to make big strides in physical-sciences output in the Nature Index, while the United States and Germany lose ground. In the 2024 Research Leaders table, which shows data for 2023, ...
Nature

A new European platform for advancing regulatory science research

Launching in 2025, the European Platform for Regulatory Science Research will bring together academia, regulators and other stakeholders to accelerate collaborative regulatory science research ...
UPI

Anthropic launches Claude Life Sciences for research using AI

Oct. 20 (UPI) --Anthropic on Monday announced a new service called Claude of Life Sciences that uses artificial intelligence in efforts to advance scientific discovery. This is the San Francisco-based ...