An expanding kit of digital tools and apps helps researchers automate certain processes and make others less burdensome. Nature Index has...

What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a...

Keeping tabs on research misconduct and scientific fraud is the job of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in the US Department of...

It’s not your imagination: keeping up with the sheer amount of content that’s available today — whether it’s Twitter, the news, or the...

Springer Nature, the world’s second biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The...

Children between the ages of 5 and 16 typically spend more than six hours a day in front of a screen. That rises to around eight hours...

An app that monitors birth control using temperature-based methods has come under scrutiny after a commentary appeared in a journal...

Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational...

Blockchain, the technology behind the popular digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to transform research and the science...

A web application inspired by the dating app Tinder lets you make snap judgments about preprints—papers published online before peer...

When designer and cycling enthusiast Florian Born moved to Berlin, one thing that bugged him was the number of bumps and potholes on the...

A software created by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne allows users to create a realistic avatars...

A staggering 1.3 billion people worldwide still don’t have access to electricity, and 95 percent of these people are based in either...

Worldwide, there has been a push to digitalise medical records to make patients active participants in their treatments. A new app, SikL,...

My interview with Kit Huckvale, a PhD student at Imperial's Global eHealth department, appeared on this month's Imperial podcast. Kit and...

Diabetes patients often have to inject themselves with needles several times a day to check their blood glucose levels. But, a new...

One in six people don't have access to toilets in developing countries. There is a culture of people practicing open defecation in many...

Bricks made from soft plastic waste that can each withstand six tonnes of pressure and relentless rain could replace the clay and straw...

Young video bloggers (vloggers) such as Zoe Sugg, known as Zoella, photographed above have millions of subscribers on YouTube and are now...

An ant-sized batteryless radio that only costs a few pennies to make. Read the full post on the news website of Science magazine.