To predict what research will be transformative, a crystal ball might be your best option.

If nations and their research institutions are to produce more impactful science, they need to encourage scientists to travel, collaborate and work across borders.

Unusual experiment reveals that news stories can boost national policy discussion on social media.

The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.

Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.

Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.

Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.

Patrick Vallance to take over from interim government adviser Chris Whitty from March next year.

ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.

European national education systems are becoming more inclusive and effective.

Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."

In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.

A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.

Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.