Ukraine will now be able to fully participate in Horizon 2020 on equal terms with EU Member States and other associated countries.

The next president of the Royal Society will be the Nobel-winning Cambridge researcher Prof Sir Venki Ramakrishnan. He will succeed geneticist Sir Paul Nurse in December 2015.

Swiss researchers who work in the US are having trouble keeping their bank accounts in Switzerland due to complications from long-standing tax evasion issues between the two countries.

Nature is offering anonymity for both reviewer and reviewed, but questions remain about value and effectiveness of the approach.

The HBP should be remade into an international organization modeled on CERN or the EMBL in Heidelberg, says a panel formed to unite the neuroscience community.

Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.

Republicans in the US Congress have put the NSF under the microscope, questioning its decisions on individual grants and the purpose of entire fields of study.

An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.

Psychology has been home to some of the most infamous cases of fraud in recent years, and while it's just a few bad apples who are spoiling the bunch, the field itself has seen an overall increase in retractions.

Times Higher Education's definitive list of the top 100 most powerful world university brands.

This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.

A new report suggests more sharing of research equipment may be a better way of getting more bang out of the science funding buck than clawing back ‘efficiency savings’ out of grant funding.

Giving equal weight to everybody’s opinion might be the worse thing you could do.

Writing rejection letters is never easy. Below we outline some tips for writing a more humane rejection letter.

In an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH, offered a familiar warning to lawmakers considering future appropriations for scientific research.