
Jeffrey Brainard
Associate News Editor at Science Magazine
Reporter, Science magazine. I write about scientific publishing, peer review, publication ethics, and more. @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social
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1 week ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
Groundbreaking scientific research with lasting impact is on the rise. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which found that the share of papers that are “persistently disruptive”—a new metric the authors developed—rose about fivefold from 1900 to 2019. The results add nuance to the narrative, advanced in several previous studies, that innovativeness has declined across many scientific fields because researchers are increasingly reliant on narrow existing knowledge within their subdisciplines.
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2 weeks ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
Groundbreaking scientific research with lasting impact is on the rise. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which found that the share of papers that are “persistently disruptive”—a new metric the authors developed—rose about fivefold from 2000 to 2019. The results add nuance to the narrative, advanced in several previous studies, that innovativeness has declined across many scientific fields because researchers are increasingly reliant on narrow existing knowledge within their subdisciplines.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard |David Malakoff |Monica Hersher
1.0x 00:00 00:02:35 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback It is almost certainly the most consequential 100 days that scientists in the United States have experienced since the end of World War II.
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2 months ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
ASTRONOMY Probe that observed 2 billion stars ends mission The European Space Agency (ESA) last week powered down its Gaia spacecraft, capping a 12-year mission to map the universe. In all, Gaia made more than 3 trillion observations, recording millions of quasars and other galaxies while also spotting hundreds of candidate exoplanets. It also made the most detailed map ever of the Milky Way.
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2 months ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
FUNDING U.S. budget deal keeps research spending flat The budgets for most U.S. research agencies will remain flat for the rest of this fiscal year under a governmentwide spending bill enacted on 15 March. The legislation, called a continuing resolution (CR), extends a current spending freeze through the fiscal year’s end on 30 September, although it adds $6 billion to overall military spending and subtracts $13 billion from civilian programs.
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