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If we want better science we should start by deflating the importance of citations in promoting, funding, and hiring scientists, say Ivan Oransky and colleagues How much is a citation worth? $3? $6? $100 000? Any of those answers is correct, according to back-of-the-envelope calculations over the past few decades.123 The spread between these numbers suggests that none of them is accurate, but it’s inarguable that citations are the coin of the realm in academia. Bibliometrics and school rank...

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned.

The UK welcomed £240 million from investors last year for space-related projects - behind only the United States and China.

Belarus and Russia have developed a science and technology development strategy for the Union State, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology of Belarus Andrei Kosovsky said during the joint meeting of the Presidiums of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ministers’ blueprint for Horizon alternative will be seen by Brussels as a ‘paper tiger’, warns Crick director

A lawyer who reviews the U.K.'s counter-terrorism legislation warned that ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots could be programmed to influence extremists into launching [...]

An overview of abortion, the legal framework in the UK, and the debate over potential reform.

The UK government has allocated £900 million towards the creation of a new supercomputer, in an effort to bolster the competitiveness of UK developers in the global market.

Dear Media Friends, Microsoft Singapore and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) are enhancing the world of education with the Microsoft HoloLens 2. The school will be using this...

SUPERBUGS could trigger a health crisis worse than Covid, experts warn.Medicine-dodging bacteria already infect 50,000 to 70,000 Brits a year and caus