ts picks

Pets asked by their owners to pick up an object attached to a mat they were sitting on understood they needed to move in order to complete the task, researchers report.

March for Science edition

Consortium pushes for open citation data; Gates Foundation launches open-access publishing platform; Cell Press lifts the veil on papers under consideration; an online widget circumvents some paywalls

USDA posting few animal inspections; HHS secretary proposes cutting indirect research expenses; science journalism vs. fake news

Obama administration’s science advisers stick together; “allies confident” NIH Director Francis Collins can dissuade Congress from approving drastic budget cuts; how Brexit may affect scientists

Reacting to the White House budget proposal; tracking “attacks on science”

A look back at the contributions of The Scientist’s founder, scientometrics pioneer Eugene Garfield (1925–2017)

Trust in scientific experts; trying open peer review; who will lead HHS?

US elections edition

Theranos’s bad blood tests; presidential science lessons; “three-parent” babies