All Academia articles – Page 72
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£4.4m donation gives RI breathing room
Anonymous donation to the Royal Institution clears debts but does not yet secure the organisation’s future
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NewsUniversity cleared, student recovering after poisoning
Seemingly deliberate thallium and arsenic exposure leaves Southampton PhD chemist fighting nerve damage
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NewsData challenges for UK chemists
Academic chemists are being overwhelmed by the amount of information they both produce and feel they ought to be reading, a report claims
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UK funders get tough on research misconduct
Research Councils UK will be able to withhold money from universities that fail to take ethical breaches seriously
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NewsScience community urged to unite on open access
While many sticking points remain, these should not be allowed to derail changes to the publication of research in the UK, meeting told
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New publishing models test the water
Several new services have launched that deviate from the current publishing models
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UK-India projects launched
Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister’s visit to India
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NewsHead of Russian degree-awarding regulator arrested
Felix Shamkhalov is charged with money laundering and issuing false dissertations. Thousands of Russian academic degrees may need to be revised
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Opinion
Safeguarding science against falsehood demands debate
Mathias Brust makes a plea for more debate in the scientific literature
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NewsESRF upgrade gears up for industry
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, has outlined the improvements that would make it the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world
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NewsGerman research minister’s doctoral thesis revoked in plagiarism row
University of Dusseldorf concludes that Annette Schavan copied large portions of her doctoral dissertation
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FeatureMeasuring up
In 2013, the Research Excellence Framework replaces the Research Assessment Exercise in rating every chemistry department in the UK. Leila Sattary weighs up the evidence
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NewsDuplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions
Analysis claims that since 1985 major science agencies may have spent $5.1 billion on research that had already received funding
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Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals
Study claims some scientists are behaving unethically to inflate impact factors and boost their careers
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NewsFunding council backs doctoral training centres with £350m
Money will fund new centres and some existing ones, while others may slowly fade away
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OpinionToo many scientists?
The proliferation of PhDs is unsustainable and damaging, says Paula Stephan.
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NewsPost-publication peer review blog launches
Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowdsourced
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FeatureLife at the top
Does an academic chemistry career help or hinder when you move up the ladder? Nina Notman gives us an insight into the role of university leaders
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NewsShine on you crazy Diamond
The Diamond Light Source based at Harwell, UK, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and five years of operation