eLife is conducting an open search for a new Editor-in-Chief to succeed Randy Schekman.

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.

Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

A Guardian investigation, in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, reveals the open-access publishers who accept any article submitted for a fee.

Big data and diversity lacking at Germany’s biggest science organization.

Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.

Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.

Even at companies run by prominent women — where it seems that gender diversity has made great strides — why is a female leader hardly ever replaced by another woman?

University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.

Foreign faculty in Japan are less productive than their local counterparts on many measures, but better connected to global collaborations.

Tweeting can help science outreach, but may take persistence.

A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal on Saturday, organisers said.

A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal Saturday, organizers said.

An international investigation has discovered that some 400,000 scientists have published papers in so-called "predatory journals".  Action taken after number of journals run by such publishers triples since 2013.

A brain drain of emigrating researchers might not be as bad as it sounds for Italy, according to an analysis that found that the worst-performing - as well as the best - researchers were leaving the country.

An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank that number, now expects to complete just 18 studies.

A software tool uses machine-learning algorithms to scour news articles and scientific citations to find notable scientists missing from Wikipedia.

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.