A few tips and tricks for both doing your best on the application and making it through the process with your self esteem intact.

Respect for what you and your colleagues bring to the table is vital to successful integration.

Marine biologists are using artificial intelligence to help them identify objects in millions of images.

The Riemann hypothesis, a formula related to the distribution of prime numbers, has remained unsolved for more than a century.

Physician Peter Gotzsche, a board member of the organization, has been an outspoken critic of certain vaccines and of the pharma industry in general.

Embracing a global view of EU research infrastructures could boost science diplomacy and break down walls put up by divisive politics. But new rules on cooperation and more funding are needed to deliver the vision.

How has this Swiss start-up attracted some of the world's top investors?  Could Auterion's success be attributed to just 3 success factors?

Even sophisticated, data-driven models of academic careers have trouble forecasting the highs and lows.

Declaring in advance what you're going to study, and how, helps avoid p-hacking and publication bias.

The Swiss Science Council reports that according to recent statistics, the gender gap in the technical sciences and engineering fields is still disproportionately high in Europe and North America. European countries with high-income have a surprisingly low proportion of female engineers in research and industry, in comparison to developing countries like Eastern Europe, Central and South Asia and Latin America.

Last month, I participated virtually in the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) workshop as 86 individuals from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley on August 27-28 to explore the growing category of open source scholarly workflow tools, to…

The National Science Foundation's rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.

US agency plans to create a central reporting system and launch training and education campaigns.

Governing board of the evidence-based medicine group may now be dissolved entirely.

One of the medical world’s most respected expert bodies is in turmoil as its annual meeting gets underway after its governing board voted to expel a member.

For first time in decades, lawmakers finish measure before new fiscal year begins.

Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. 

As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.

For the first time, the Wellcome Trust is publishing received project proposals, and will be adding funding decisions end of October.

86 people from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley, CA and remotely to attend the first workshop convened by the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools, to develop a common vision, user stories, and roadmap to support open science research workflows, and better coordinate work across the community of open science projects.

Almost 90% of academic clinical trials are not reported promptly to European registry.

EU rules say clinical trial results must be reported onto the EU register for every trial there within 12 months of the end of the trial, yet no one has ever been sanctioned for breaking the European rules. European academic institutes are lagging far behind companies in complying with the reporting rules.

COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team (California Digital Library, DataCite, and DataONE) collaborated in drafting the Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1.

Many scientists disagree with the CRISPR patent ruling, believing it doesn't represent how molecular biology is practiced. That doesn't make it wrong.

John "Iain" Glen, inventor of propofol, among four Lasker Award winners.

The Parliament voted in favor of almost all provisions that extend more rights to the establishment copyright industries while failing to protect users and new creators online.

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.

Researchers gain more access to hi-tech research tool, but data start-ups warn the narrow rules create "a backseat for Europe's innovators".

In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.