The conference will debate the role of the editor in supporting and promoting sustainable science, and ensuring diversity through stimulating plenary speakers, panel discussions and interactive sessions.

Long-running controversy had drawn extensive attention.

Women have made significant contributions to the field of science, but often their invaluable advances have been minimized or ignored.

The president's new budget would cut more than $3 billion in global health programs.

New outbreak comes as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struggles to raise more money, thwart Ebola, and fight health misinformation.

Artificial intelligence tools are used on a historical piece of footage to great effect.

An automated e-mail response posted by an academic researcher on Twitter unleashed a social-media debate about the importance of work-life balance.

Medical sources in the city confirm rate of infection, but say they have been told not to release the full picture to the public.

Swiss government orders inquiry after revelations Crypto AG was owned and operated by US and German intelligence.

The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans resulting in a major epidemic.

The measurements used to make the original argument made very little sense.

Altmetrics have been an important topic in the context of open science for some time.

On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the SNSF's social media channels will be reserved for stories about women researchers. The aim is to enhance the visibility of their research projects.

The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.

White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs

This work aims to solve accessibility problems related to the protection of personal data in the digital era and to achieve a responsible access to and responsible use of health data. We strongly suggest associating each data set with FAIR metadata describing both the type of data collected and the accessibility conditions by considering data protection obligations and ethical and regulatory requirements.

The Trump administration fired a diplomatic shot across the European Commission's bow, with a public warning that it may reject an offer for the US to join the EU's next big research programme.

Ashmita Das describes the ethos of her freelance-research platform, Kolabtree.

For years, China's Thousand Talents recruitment plan attracted U.S. scientists with its grants. Investigators now say China used the program to steal sensitive technology.

Curtin University researchers will help create a new international data trust to improve the measurement and analysis of open-access (OA) books.

The government is being told to act over a "lack of visible role models for girls" in science. Here's a whole array they could use.

Former editors-in-chief at European Law Journal say the departure of editorial boards raises issue about 'who owns' scholarly journals.

Dr. Li Wenliang issued a warning about a strange new virus. Then the authorities summoned him for questioning.

Investigation finds that biophysicist Kuo-Chen Chou repeatedly suggested dozens of citations be added to papers.

Research involves deep discussions between authors and reviewers. Starting this week, readers of some Nature Research journals will be able to see this up close.

As the new coronavirus continues its deadly spread, researchers must ensure that their work on this outbreak is shared rapidly and openly.

Modelers are trying to forecast how the virus will move, but they need better data.

Most of the world's supply of masks and respirators comes from China, and a supply chain gap poses a risk to everyday health care beyond the viral epidemic.

The Iowa caucus debacle proved that a 21st-century election requires 19th-century technology.

New diseases are mirrors that reflect how a society works-and where it fails.