€540 Million from EU to 231 Senior Researchers.

A new survey provides an updated view of how and why researchers are using scholarly collaboration networks.

Scientific output in Japan has seen a sharp decline in the last decade due to years of inflation, government debt, rising commodity prices and a series of natural disasters.

A coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data.

Entrepreneurs are betting on apps that improve—or just replace—prescription medication.

Contaminated samples, faulty studies and inadequate training have created a crisis in laboratories and industry, slowing the quest for new treatments and cures.

Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, answers the question "What is your stance on AI research given Canada's privileged position in the field?" in an online forum.

A series of journalism conferences on obesity received covert funding from Coca-Cola.

U.S. taxpayers pay $30 billion a year to fund biomedical research aimed at finding better treatments. But competition for scarce funding and tenure may be prompting some scientists to cut corners.

Initiative for Open Citations makes citation data free for all

US Food and Drug Administration says firm can provide consumers with information on genetic risks.

Academics protest over government's 'dual use' research programme — which received a big funding boost.

PLOS now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts and persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods.