Measuring the results of scientific research has seen little federal focus until now. A 2010 administrative memorandum calls on U.S. federal agencies and executive departments to develop tools to ...

Most people alive today who are not in science or medicine will not be able to quickly recall just ten biologists or ten chemists and their discoveries. Most of them can have a happy life without that ...

“Citizen science is suitable for contributing to most of the framework we reviewed, but it is currently contributing to only a handful of indicators.” The analysis found that citizen science is ...

This activity was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation (award #1822391). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations ...

Gordon Gauchat is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Scientists and researchers who ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...