A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years.

New President Michel Temer — who replaces impeached Dilma Rousseff — is fusing the science and telecommunications ministries. 

Document submitted to the Italian Senate criticizes institute that will oversee a €1.5-billion project.

Female Ph.D.s in science and engineering earn 31 percent less than their male cohorts one year after graduation, according to a new study in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. When controlling for the fact that women tend to earn degrees in fields that pay less than those in which more men earn degrees, the observed gap dropped to 11 percent. And the gap disappeared when controlling for whether the women were married and had children.

Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens and how he needed to crowdfund the resources to analyse the data.

What do the world’s six most reputed universities have in common?

Plan spells out six proposed “research frontiers” and three “process” changes

Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.

Team finalists receive $80,000 each to develop products to overcome hurdles in big data access and usage.

The ESFRI has published its Roadmap for 2016.