Draft update to 2003 policy of the National Institute of Health will require that all grantees make data sets freely available.

Nature's survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of doctoral research. The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention.

Anxiety and depression among graduate students seems to be on the rise. Systemic change is needed to halt an ongoing crisis.

Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?

Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas.

Bambang Hero Saharjo has received death threats for testifying against companies. 

The practice was probably used to improve the children's chances of securing a university place.

The initiative, "Project Nightingale," gives the tech giant the ability to analyze personal health information from Ascension, a Catholic hospital system.

Analysis finds female-led papers are more likely to be rejected, and less likely to be cited, than those with male corresponding authors.

Various companies are pressing ahead with plans for internet service from space, which has prompted astronomers to voice concerns about the impact on research from telescopes on Earth.

A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.

Minority-serving colleges and universities are looking on helplessly as vital funding for their science, engineering and math programs are bogged down in the Senate morass.

The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.

In an unexpected lawsuit, US federal officials claim that Gilead Sciences willfully disregarded government patents on medicines necessary to end the AIDS epidemic.

Crossref strives for balance. Different people have always wanted different things from us and, since our founding, we have brought together diverse organizations to have discussions-sometimes contentious-to agree on how to help make scholarly communications better. Being inclusive can mean slow progress, but we've been able to advance by being flexible, fair, and forward-thinking. We have been helped by the fact that Crossref's founding organizations defined a clear purpose in our original certificate of incorporation, which reads:

Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we're facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.

Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities' ability to attract global talent

The Beijing Declaration is intended as a timely statement of core principles to encourage global cooperation, especially for public research data.

'Geo-specific access models' will help overcome problem of different nations having different policies towards open access, European Commission expert argues.

In this article, potentially high-impact policy changesare outlined that build upon existing mechanisms for research funding and governance and that can be rapidly implemented to counteract barriers facing women in science. These approaches must be coupled to vigorous and continuous outcomes-based monitoring, so that the most successful strategies can be disseminated and widely implemented.

Industries that rely on physics expertise contribute more to the EU economy than financial services or retail, according to a new study.

In exchange for full open access Elsevier requests full cooperation in a number of (meta)data projects. Initial responses to the proposed deal show a fear of 'vendor lock-in'.

Italy will next year become the world's first country to make it compulsory for schoolchildren to study climate change and sustainable development, Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said.

The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists.

Independent report sets out new opportunities to boost international partnerships on research and innovation. The government will seek to maintain a close relationship with Europe on research and innovation. Continued international collaboration is vital to the UK remaining a global science superpower, tackling the world’s Grand Challenges and attracting and retaining the talent we need

 Researchers in Sweden have created a molecule that offers a way to trap heat from the sun.

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.