Scientists often herald the role of chance in research. A project in Britain aims to test the popular idea with evidence.

Some answers to the main challenges in moving toward Open Science.

Some scientific journals are defusing the fear of getting “scooped” by making it easier for scientists to publish results that have appeared elsewhere.

PubMed Commons has been a valuable experiment in supporting discussion of published scientific literature. The service was first introduced as a pilot project in the fall of 2013.

Computer scientist Antoine Petit, 57, is the new head of Europe's largest research organization. On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron named Petit as president of CNRS, France's national research agency headquartered in Paris.

Scientists around the globe nowadays regularly take to the internet to scrutinize research after it’s been published — including to run their own analyses of the data and spot mistakes or fraud.

New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible.

Ali Kaya says he used science to stay sane during his incarceration.

But female scientists suffer when their research proposals are judged primarily on the strength of their CVs.

A small group of fewer than 30 universities are having a bigger impact on the inventions driving global economic growth than the world’s major industrialised nations.

Poorer performance found to be based on less positive evaluation of female principal investigators, not differences in the quality of science

I was routinely humiliated by my head of department. Universities must tackle bullying with proper policy.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is launching a new company under the Alphabet umbrella. It's called Chronicle, and the new company wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity.

Study finds that a given discipline's perceived gender bias plays the biggest role in whether women choose to major in it.

Research budget could rise to 3.5% of gross domestic product if agreement struck during coalition talks holds.

UK announces plans for the ethical oversight of AI as it is increasingly used to drive cars, diagnose patients and even to help determine prison sentences.

‘Scientific’ eugenics is on the rise, and grabbing a foothold in respected journals. The claim that these theories are a credible part of a general discussion should worry us all.

Steven Chu, former secretary of energy, professor of physics at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate, has been chosen as the president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Research into jobs finds men’s dominance in IT and biotech is reversing trend towards equality.

A new online tool measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them.

A model of the way opinions spread reveals how propagandists use the scientific process against itself to secretly influence policy makers.

Switzerland appears to have three key factors for success in getting a surprisingly high proportion of its researchers’ articles cited in the scientific literature: it’s a small country, it’s research investment is large compared to other countries, and importantly, its hosting of the Large Hadron Collider is a drawcard for collaborative research.

Replication is not enough. Marcus R. Munafò and George Davey Smith state the case for triangulation.

Preliminary coalition agreement pledges increase in research funding to 3.5% of GDP.

The nearly 60,000-member American Geophysical Union took the bold step of revising its ethics policy to treat harassment, discrimination and bullying as scientific misconduct, with the same types of penalties for offenders. Other scientific organizations have not adopted that standard.