EU Commissioners approved on 30 April details of an experimental new "matrix" design for their research policy department, which its chief says will force staff to work together across bureaucratic lines. "This is really about establishing an agile, modern, cross-cutting administration, which really can elaborate policies and projects differently," said Jean-Eric Paquet, director-general of DG Research and Innovation, known as DG RTD.

The National Academy of Sciences has come under pressure to address misconduct in recent years.

In this 2-day meeting participants will learn how to contribute to innovation covering a large variety of roles in the value chain.

Scholars question decision -- particularly as it comes from one of the world's wealthiest universities and will limit publishing by a highly respected press.

Higher education groups call on government to clarify its policy on tuition costs

Agreement with Norwegian consortium allows researchers to make the vast majority of their work free to read on publication in Elsevier journals.

Home fee status and financial support for EU nationals is planned to be withdrawn from 2021 in a new crackdown on foreign students by Theresa May.

Critical scientific assessment of humanity's impact on nature to be released after Paris negotiations.

U.K. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) grant holders face bureaucratic headaches to shift grant administration out of the country by 1 May.

The winners of the Wellcome Data Re-use Prizes have generated new insights in antimicrobial resistance and malaria research.

The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, comprising sixteen libraries and the Swiss National Science Foundation, is the third national consortium to commit to the SCOSS initiative.

A Norwegian consortium has signed a new kind of subscription deal with Elsevier that includes open-access publishing - a first for the publisher. But the new rights come at a cost.

Only a few legislators really know what they're talking about, but it's a start.

The AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadors program furthers women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics by empowering current innovators and inspiring the next generation of pioneers.

Thousands of Nature referees have chosen to be publicly acknowledged.

Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.

For years, scientists have declared P values of less than 0.05 to be "statistically significant." Now statisticians are saying the cutoff needs to go.

According to the latest data from the European University Association (EUA), only few higher education institutions have policies on research data management in place. 

The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held at University of Geneva in June 19th-21st 2019. The main theme of this edition is: Open Science - its impact and potential as a driver for radical change.

His 15-year quest to understand how brain cells communicate provided the underlying science for many antipsychotic drugs.

Society's new antiharassment policy doesn't include mechanisms for protecting survivors of past abuse if harasser attends meeting.

A new momentum is emerging in the dissemination of scientific knowledge worldwide.  The GLOALL carries a vision to promote the development of multilingual scholarly communication standards, products and services.

Fourteen universities from five European countries started a collaboration to set up University Journals as an alternative to the current journal system that requires authors to transfer their copyright or charges article processing charges.

"Without bold and focused action, their future is in critical danger. There is no time to wait until they are in power," scientists say.

The project included more than 200 researchers around the world, about 40 of them women, including Dr. Bouman.

Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents - despite efforts to dampen its influence.

The decision could derail multi-million-dollar research projects such as the Sirius synchrotron.

The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings assess universities against the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Calibrated indicators are used to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons across three broad areas: research, outreach, and stewardship. This first edition includes more than 450 universities from 76 countries.

DOI metadata provenance is describing the history of a particular DOI metadata record, i.e. what changes were made when and by whom. This information is now stored and provided via an API for all DOI registrations since March 10, 2019. 

Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image.