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Three participants discuss their experiences and lessons learned for a sustainable future.

The fight for sound science, per se, but climate science, specifically, is a fight for truth and all the progress science can provide.

Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia. Science and innovation invade Val Trompea with the festival Quantitative Science and Innovation Week, now in its ninth

Michigan State University researchers say North America plays a pivotal role in worldwide conservation efforts. But, more needs to be done to preserve critical areas and limit global warming.

Eight Stanford University researchers are among the 120 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists are elected to the NAS by their peers.The new members from Stanford are Greg Beroza, the Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Scien

Eight Stanford faculty are among the newest members of an organization created in 1863 to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.

 E-Mail An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. "The open access publishing model is growing, and open access successfully democratizes the results of research projects, but its clear now that some scholars are more likely to be represented in the open access literature" said AARC director and lead author of th...

In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing an unprecedented rule: The scientists they funded would be required to make journal articles developed with their support immediately free to read when published. The new requirement, which takes effect starting this month, seeks to upend decades of tradition in scientific publishing, whereby scientists publish their research in journals for free and publishers make money by char...

ILLUSTRATION: DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing an unprecedented rule: The scientists they funded would be required to make journal articles developed with their support immediately free to read when published. The new requirement, which takes effect starting this month, seeks to upend decades of tradition in scientific publishing, whereby scientists publish their research in journals f...