The US-based March of Dimes says it revoked awards to 37 researchers as part of a shift in its funding priorities.

Caucher Birkar grew up on a farm near the Kurdish city of Marivan in Iran and spoke little English when he began his PhD.

Oklahoma meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier is a respected researcher and science policy veteran.

Despite the good work by Carlos Moedas and his team, there are still a number of aspects of the proposal that could be improved.

Elsevier has become the newest customer of Impactstory's Unpaywall Data Feed, which provides a weekly feed of changes in Unpaywall, our open database of 20 million open access articles.

Researcher Jess Wade says efforts to attract girls into science are not evidence-based – and are not working.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report outlining key recommendations for graduate programs and the science enterprise. It highlights the need for employers in all sectors to provide financial support for internships and other types of career experiences to students and recent graduates.

Anonymous survey of young scientists reveals fresh accusations of bullying and harassment at astrophysics institute.

Got an idea that could transform the world? NSF is launching a new contest offers prizes for "biggest" research ideas. On 31 August NSF will begin accepting online entries for the contest. Anyone can submit an idea - from individual scientists to professional societies to a high school science class.

Over the last decade, Russian academics and activists have built free, remarkably comprehensive online archives of scholarly works.

The Department of Interior (DOI) and two agencies under the DOI have carried out policies that block or restrain federal scientists from attending or presenting at scientific conferences.

A pilot experiment has seen 26 papers published under open-access terms so far and should yield a report by the end of the year.

Key areas of focus for tweaking peer review include making journal editors more directive in the process, rewarding reviewers, and improving accountability of editors, reviewers and authors.

Under the current slate of legislation, moderate increases would allow agency research dollars to continue their recent growth.

The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has submitted feedback to the European Parliament with suggestions for concrete amendments to the Proposal for the Regulation establishing Horizon Europe.

When conducting research involving the testing of human biospecimens, investigators and their institutions should routinely consider whether and how to return individual research results on a study-specific basis through an informed decision-making process, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Machine learning on mountain of safety data improves automated assessments.

Revised rules are designed to help researchers focus on their work and compete with their counterparts globally.

Proposed body would monitor universities to ensure that allegations of malpractice are properly investigated.

Today we're announcing a GBP250m not-for-profit fund. Director Jeremy Farrar explains how the new Wellcome Leap Fund will accelerate discovery and innovation.

A group of European funders, including the European Commission, will soon require researchers to publish only in open-access outlets that the funders consider high quality, the Commission’s open-access envoy has said.

Science and Technology Committee publish report on research integrity

From July 2018, the Europe PMC repository will start indexing preprints.

One of the world’s largest biomedical research charities is setting up a new initiative to fund outside-the-box science.

A new search engine that aims to connect nonacademics with open-access research will be launched this fall. Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. The site will be built by Impactstory in conjunction with the Internet Archive and the British Library.

Rapidly produced and highly topical digital humanities projects are challenging perceptions of the field.

An investigative report uncovers little recognized and unpoliced potential conflicts of interest among those who serve on FDA advisory panels that review drugs. FDA may also have missed or judged insignificant financial ties physicians had before their service on the drug approval advisory panels.

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, resigned on 5 July amid a series of ethical and spending scandals throughout his 16 months at the agency.

The European Parliament has paused the progress of controversial EU copyright proposals, which R&D organisations have said would be damaging for innovation, meaning they could now be revised.

France’s new national plan to activate Open Science - presented by the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frédérique Vidal, at LIBER’s 2018 Annual Conference.