The US National Institutes of Health has put forward a plan to change how it ranks research proposals and decides which ones to fund.Credit: Timon Schneider/Alamy The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed overhauling how it decides which research projects to fund, and how it reports the outcome of those deliberations. For the
Randomizing parts of grant decision-making increases diversity and reduces costs, argue some researchers.Credit: Andrew Angelov/Alamy Rachel Heyard’s job was to find a signal in the noise, but the trouble was how often there wasn’t one. As a biostatistician in the data team at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Bern, Switzerland’s main public research
Laura Dern has written a touching tribute to her “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic World Dominion” co-star Sam Neill, saying: “I will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant.” On Monday news broke that Neill had died at the age of 78. He was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer in 2022, but revealed earlier this
