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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.

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.

While the Netherlands, France and the UK showed significant growth, other countries such as Finland, Switzerland and Spain declined. However, Switzerland still heads the ranking with 848 applications per million inhabitants.

Europe's ambitious but contentious €1-billion HBP has announced changes to its organization in a response to criticism of its management and scientific trajectory by many high-ranking neuroscientists.

Facilities prepare for shutdown as government refuses to secure funding. Up to 1,700 jobs at 27 facilities at risk from 30 June, with $150m in vital funding tied to the Coalition’s higher-education changes.

The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014

Carlos Moedas' speech, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, in Berlin last week in favor of open science, disruptive innovation and digital technologies.

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.

To help make the costs around open access more transparent, the Wellcome Trust has published details on how much it spent on article processing charges in the year 2013-14.