The Trump administration wants to disband a panel of national security advisors, the latest U.S. crackdown on science.

Universities fear chaos in September as private company struggles with workload.

Wellcome Trust chairwoman warns Boris Johnson that Britain will lose out if it "amputates" the EU.

In this post it is discussed how open research can lead to economic benefits. The author suggests that future open research policies should focus on developing research discovery, translation and the capacity for research utilisation outside of the academy.

We celebrate the official launch of the ORCID Austria consortium at their recent workshop in Vienna, co-hosted by lead organizations TU Wien and the University of Vienna.

"Manned" spaceflight doesn't make sense anymore.

I was a climate scientist in a climate-denying administration - and it cost me my job writes Maria Caffrey

Many of the deadliest or most common cancers get the least amount of nonprofit research funding, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined cancer research funding from nonprofit organizations.

Until recently, few universities tried to replicate the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, aiming to increase diversity among future leaders in science, technology, engineering and related fields. But that's changing.

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce an agreement to work together to strengthen and expand capacities for research data management within the international data repository community.

Scientific manuscript tracking and pre-prints with the In Review service from Springer Nature and Research Square. 

Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people.

The climate emergency movement is heading to school. Global higher education networks tying together more than 7000 universities and colleges from across the globe declared a climate emergency and published a three-point plan to confront the escalating environmental crisis.

A new study of millions of patents granted between 1926 and 2017 supports the value of spending tax dollars on basic research.

A Chinese scientist’s startup fled the U.S. after a federal investigation that included a failed sting, airport stops and an unfounded child-porn search.

Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in Google Scholar publications.

Collaboration brings together leading platforms for data and software sharing.

We scientists must stand up for openness and fairness. Discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity, turning down a collaboration or refusing a visa for a conference on the grounds of nationality, or simply making someone feel unwelcome because they are an immigrant - these are all morally objectionable and practically counterproductive. Such behaviour must cease.

Deaf student Liam Mcmulkin has created more than 100 signs for words used in science.

Numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses, helped put a man on the moon. Here are the stories of some of those women.

A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast quantities of science for computer analysis - but is it legal?

We can't let that happen to women working on climate science today

The working example represents a major milestone in the development of Libero Publisher, a community-supported tool to help modernise academic publishing.

So does Sci-Hub lead libraries to cancel journals, or doesn't it? Maybe the answer isn't a simple yes or no.

The Spektr-RG x-ray mission will be Russia's only space observatory.

The £50 note gets a makeover with the image of a computer pioneer.

Elsevier, the world's largest publishers of academic journals, just stepped up its fight with the University of California by cutting off UC's access.

An examination of introductory psychology textbooks suggests that prospective psychological researchers may learn to interpret statistical significance incorrectly in their undergraduate classes.

Studies that provide access to underlying data are cited 25% more often than those that don't.

The 10,000-hour rule says intense, dedicated practice makes perfect - at that one thing. But what if breadth actually serves us better than depth?