Research Conduct

To counter worrying trends in domestic R&D, Japan’s science and technology policy pivoted to a radical new approach to international research collaboration.

Alvin Hathaway Sr. explains what Baltimore’s African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative needed to gain insight, influence, and credibility.

Timothy Lieuwen proposes a framework that universities can use to evaluate potential research funding relationships with oil and gas companies in light of their own values.

Lisa Bero discusses her investigations into the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, techniques industries use to shape evidence to favor their products, and the importance of independent research to inform policy.

As “entrepreneurial universities” become the norm, institutional leadership must take a more active role in supporting and preparing researchers for public freedom of information requests.

Efforts to share health data across borders snag on legal and regulatory barriers. Before detangling the fine print, let’s agree on overarching principles.

Decisionmakers need insights on how this powerful current shapes hurricanes, fisheries, energy supplies, and life in the Gulf of Mexico. An ambitious project to collect data and predict the current’s erratic behavior is compelling scientists to cross disciplines as well as borders.

When an interdisciplinary, international group of researchers turned their attention—and a tool for knowledge structuring—to work out the mechanisms of COVID-19, they learned how diverse scientists can synthesize information constructively.

In her novel The Last Animal, Ramona Ausubel takes readers on an action-packed, globetrotting quest to resurrect a woolly mammoth.

Research driven by patients with rare diseases is producing faster discoveries and treatments—and challenging long-held assumptions about knowledge production.

Sexual harassment in scientific and technical fields isolates survivors, and legal compliance practices alienate some even further. Collective bargaining could engage the whole academic community in creating a better workplace.

The long fight against sexual harassment is shifting from compliance to culture.