Ten people who mattered in science in 2019 according to nature.

Economic and Social Research Council may provide four years of PhD funding amid concerns over stress caused by three-year model

How will climate change shape the Earth's surface? What are the long-term health effects of food additives? How can online tools change political advocacy and what does this mean for democracy? These are just some of the questions that researchers from around Europe have proposed to explore, and will now be able to, thanks to newly-awarded EU funding.

American pigs are raised on a liberal diet of antibiotics, fueling the rise of resistant germs. Danish pork producers are proving there's a better way.

Exhausted delegates postponed tricky issues. The weak rules on a market based mechanism, promoted by Brazil and Australia, that would have undermined efforts to reduce emissions have been shelved and the fight can continue next year at COP26 in Glasgow.

Agreement allows yearlong delay before papers become free to read.

Promises to raise research spending and take action on climate change overshadowed by scientists' fears about leaving the European Union.

Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.

Academics can excel in many areas, but thus far they have primarily been assessed based on research achievements. From now on, the public knowledge institutions and research funders want to consider academics' knowledge and expertise more broadly in determining career policy and grant requirements.

When it comes to race, "It's always like 'O.K., but now we're going to start the lesson on peas,''' a biology teacher said. A study will test a new approach.

Around 200 environmental campaigners are barred from climate talks after Greta Thunberg speaks.

He Jiankui's original research, published for the first time, could have failed, scientists say.

A study in mice suggests serotonin release underlies the drug's prosocial effects while dopamine mediates the rewarding properties that drive its potential for abuse.

But can we protect them?

International codes of conduct are important, but grass-roots efforts are the key to embedding research integrity.

We explore the components that can support reproducibility by making research more easily verifiable: data, code, and protocols.

Little is known about the long-term effects of early-career setback. Here, the authors compare junior scientists who were awarded a NIH grant to those with similar track records, who were not, and find that individuals with the early setback systematically performed better in the longer term.

It's called Digid8 and will try to use your genes to make sure you never meet the wrong person.

In memory of Margarita Salas, the biochemist whose discoveries led to faster, more-accurate DNA testing.

ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal.