We're increasing peer review transparency by making it easier for public comments on preprints to be considered in the review process at PLOS journals.

Unpaywall Journals needed data on whether a given journal is associated with an academic society, to help inform librarians in their subscription decisions. Alas there was no open source of this information. There is now! 

The Nasa craft is the second to travel beyond heliosphere but gives the most detailed data yet.

Professor Eveline Crone has been elected as the new Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC). She will take up duties on 1 January 2020, alongside two current Vice Presidents. Elected by the ERC Scientific Council, she will be in charge of ERC activities in the domain of Social Sciences and Humanities.

How did data get so big? Through political, social and economic interests, shows Sabina Leonelli.

Climanosco believes that changing the language can make the debate around climate science can become more inclusive. The organisation publishes papers that have been reviewed by teams of both scientists and laypeople.

Researchers share tips for transforming your group with open data science and teamwork.

Sudip Parikh will become the new CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science) as the 171-year-old association pursues its mission to advance science and serve society.

Is there a diversity issue in international science prizes? We explore this issue and ask our members and the scientific community to share their ideas by taking our online survey.

To combat academic dishonesty, focus on educational systems and not just individual offenders, says Tracey Bretag.

Security services in Brussels say Song Xinning, former head of Confucius Institute at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, worked as a recruiter for Chinese intelligence services.

One year ago, the Royal Society hosted the Research culture: Changing expectations conference. The conference ended with a call to action for attendees to consider how they could improve research culture in their own institutions. In this blog we report back on a snapshot of the work of some of these individuals and organisations.

We invite you to join our mentorship programme designed for innovators in open science and research communication.

Imperial's new conference policy puts guidance on promoting equality, diversity and inclusion at the forefront.

Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors"><meta name="description" content="For Qatar, global warming is an engineering problem. But while it may be able to cool outdoor malls and stadiums, it cannot cool the entire country.

The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. A study found evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that black patients assigned the same level of risk by the algorithm are sicker than white patients.

Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice

The government's "directions will be entirely determined by the interests of Indian academia and of India", according to K. VijayRaghavan, the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India.

Court prevents publicity for investigations into Heidelberg University Hospital cancer test scandal

Figshare has launched its annual report The State of Open Data 2019. While most trends are encouraging around the adoption and acceptance of open data, the research community is now demanding more enforcement of the mandates that have been adopted by many governments, funders, publishers and institutions around the world.

President Trump revived the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on Tuesday after nearly two years without it.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published its final recommendations on how to increase the open sharing of MIT publications, data, software and educational materials.

In the three years since it ended, the pandemic has become an object of obsession for scientists, who have published more than 6,000 research papers about it. What did they conclude? 

Green parties have made major gains at the expense of parties across the political spectrum in elections to the Swiss parliament, where environmental concerns dominated campaigns in the run-up to Sunday's vote.

Racial disparities in funding may be partly caused by topic choice, study finds.

The UK's share of EU research funding has fallen dramatically because of Brexit uncertainty, with the country's take home from the EU Horizon 2020 programme cut by almost €500 million since 2015, according an analysis by the Royal Society.

After the euphoria of 2018, this year's Nobel prizes in chemistry, medicine and physics have again all been awarded to men. Here are three ways to encourage change.

Democrats drop some provisions to gain Republican backing and improve chances of final passage of the scientific integrity bill.

The first figures emerge demonstrating that Brexit uncertainty has adversely affected UK research.