All Academia articles
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Research
From tipsy worms to pigeon missiles: the quirky triumphs of the 2024 Ig Nobel awards
Chemistry prize rewards work that used worms as analogues of large polymers
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News
Science community holds its breath again as consequential US presidential election looms
A lot is riding on the November election for university researchers and science advocates, who overwhelmingly back Kamala Harris
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News
Chemistry courses, departments face closure in the UK highlighting higher education’s financial woes
Courses are facing the axe at Aston University and the University of Hull, with others struggling
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News
Widespread signs of paper milling discovered in materials science and engineering papers
Metadata in images of scanning electron microscopes doesn’t match the make and model of the instrument in thousands of papers
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News
Search for UKRI chief executive starts afresh
New UK government has reopened the application process for top job at leading research funder
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News
US government scientist union scores latest contract win
Californian scientists have followed academics in unionising and have negotiated better pay and conditions
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Careers
Will open science change chemistry?
While more researchers are adopting open access, open data, open peer review and open projects, some significant barriers are hindering progress
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News
Chemistry body to create multi-language chemistry dictionary to avoid confusion
Dictionary will cover terms such as ‘electrolyte’ and ‘non-metal’
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News
Award-winning chemist threatens to sue critic
Tensions flare in latest dispute over spherical nucleic acid technology
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News
Budget leaves Indian researchers searching for funding following cuts to universities
Government critics highlight parlous situation on pay and infrastructure
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News
Should scientists be paid when AI chatbots use their work?
Two major scientific publishers have recently sold access to research papers to train AIs at big tech firms
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News
Public support high for recruiting best students and talent for UK universities
Immigration remains a polarising topic for the country though, even where universities are concerned
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News
Caltech gets new theoretical chemistry centre that honours Nobel laureate
Two former chemistry postdocs pledge $30 million to build the Rudy Marcus Center
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Opinion
A holistic approach to success
Three activities that helped me to thrive in academia and beyond
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Careers
Should I stay or should I go?
Two colleagues in academia and industry reflect on their career choices
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Opinion
How hoarding knowledge is hurting the industry in the long run
Sharing results that are not commercially viable would speed up research
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News
Elemental analysis under scrutiny again as competition raises accuracy questions
Doubts grow over the standard used by journals as competition highlights 26% failure rate with simple molecule
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News
Japanese chemistry institute sues archival site for hosting discontinued journal
Case could set an important precedent if it reaches court
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News
Head of Japanese research university faces misconduct allegations
Kyoto Institute of Technology’s president under scrutiny over alleged data duplications across 34 research papers
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News
US–China tensions appear to be damaging countries’ science, analysis finds
Ethnically Chinese students pursuing PhDs in the US dropped along with productivity of ethnically Chinese scientists