Jun 9, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Michael Plank, Alex James, Audrey Lustig, Nicholas Steyn, Rachelle Binny & Shaun Hendy New Zealand hits a 95% chance of eliminating coronavirus. However, researchers predict new cases will emerge. There is now a 95% chance COVID-19 has been eliminated in New...
Dec 18, 2017 | Business & Economics
By Mark C. Wilson University research is generally funded from the public purse. The results, however, are published in peer-reviewed academic journals, many of which charge subscription fees as Mark Wilson explains. I had to use freedom of information laws to...
Aug 15, 2017 | Business & Economics, Science & Technology
Raising big money is a relatively new phenomenon in academia. How did science, government, and industry become so entwined with one another and what has it meant for scholarly research? Big money has supported cross-institution collaborations researching both medicine...