Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive.

Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos - or something else entirely.

It's time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.

A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition.

The city of Zurich published data sets of attractions, destinations, restaurants and accommodation that can be freely reused under a CC BY-SA license.

Apple Maps now shows Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - as part of Russia, when viewed there.

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.

Marc Schiltz, Secretary General and Executive Head of the FNR, has been re-elected President of Science Europe, an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations.

Research in the US aims to support rollback of methane rules.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.

Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.

The incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has given into demands that the word 'research' should feature in the research commissioner's job title, making the change at the last possible minute, just before the European Parliament confirmed the new team of commissioners in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

A swift increase in scientific productivity has outstripped the country's ability to promote rigour and curb academic misconduct; it is time to seize solutions.

Publishers rarely make publication fee spending for hybrid journals transparent. Elsevier is a remarkable exception, as the publisher provides open and machine-readable data relative to its central invoicing with funding bodies and fee waivers at the article level.

We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.

Data stewardship encompasses all of the various tasks and responsibilities that relate to research data management throughout the entire research lifecycle. It has been discussed at the 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki by research, industry and policy experts.

A growing number of research agencies are assigning money randomly. The Swiss National Science Foundation is the latest funder to experiment with random selection.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is piloting a narrative CV format in the Veni scheme, its major funding instrument for early career researchers. The format advances showcasing diverse types of talent and encourages assessment of quality rather than quantity.

Carnegie Mellon University, a longtime proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionize academic publishing.

The publisher is committed to financial sustainability. How it achieves it is an open question.

Scientists should take a more intentional, evidence-based approach to mentoring, including tenure and promotion incentives, according to an upcoming report from the US National Academies.

Some funders and publishers call it unethical, for others, it's par for the course.