"This will NOT happen again," an NIH official promised an alcohol industry lobbyist in an email, referring to a study linking marketing to underage drinking.

Dr Patrick Vallance starts in his role as Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) today.

Finding purpose and meaning in the lab.

The UK’s continued participation in European Union research programmes and bodies such as the European Medicines Agency should be among the criteria by which a Brexit deal is judged, MPs have said.

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Next Einstein Forum and Elsevier launch a megajournal to boost African research and collaboration.

One major factor is the significant gender inequity that exists in the recruitment, promotion and retention of female faculty and staff scientists.

Life Science Alliance is a global, open-access, editorially independent, and peer-reviewed journal launched by an alliance of EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

In an interview with WIRED, French President Emmanuel Macron describes his plans to enhance the country's AI efforts—and differentiate them from those in the US.

French president announces ambitious plan to boost artificial intelligence research and lure talent to France.

I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children  

An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.

The NIH announced in December 2017 that it would rereview dozens of applications that might have been compromised in terms of confidentiality.

Nature peers into the evidence for ‘psychographic targeting’.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government tapped Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan, a molecular biologist and head of India’s Department of Biotechnology, to fill the post of science adviser.

The SNSF is strengthening publishing Open Access: as of 1 April 2018, it will be easier to publish books and journal articles that are openly accessible.

A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.

I’m in graduate school to learn, and preprints—draft versions of journal articles that are shared prior to peer review—offer a great opportunity to do just that. Here’s how preprints help young researchers grow in ways traditional types of scientific communication don’t.

Employers favor new college graduates with moderate academic success but not high achievement, study finds. New male graduates' grades don't seem to have much impact.