By limiting how long postdocs can be federally funded and by making it more expensive to keep them designated as trainees, research institutions will have an incentive to employ more permanent staff scientists, providing a much-needed additional career option for young scientist.

A new study that follows 21 Black men pursuing graduate degrees in engineering explores themes of structural racism, unfair treatment, unwelcoming environments and feelings of isolation.

Pay disparities at science employers outpace national average for all firms.

Prizes will reward outstanding scientific discovery and exceptional efforts to engage girls and young women in science.

Publication will highlight pioneering work of scientists searching for cures to diseases like HIV and malaria and solutions to climate change.

Today, Clarivate is announcing that it recently acquired Kopernio, a startup launched last year to streamline access to scholarly content.

Women who have their first child before 25 or after 35 eventually close the salary divide with their husbands. It’s the years in between that are most problematic, research shows.

Europe PMC, one of the largest free online open access repositories in the life sciences, has teamed up with Unpaywall to unlock even more content for their users (the SNSF is a Europe PMC funding group member).

After discovering a pattern of fraudulent papers from China, an Australian oncologist aims to expand her watchdog project and keep the retractions coming.

Just five out of 57 appointed members of the new UK Research and Innovation unified research funding body are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds.

The regulations issued by the State Council aim to improve the management, security, accuracy, and openness of scientific data.

What people write reveals hidden biases.

The EU’s next R&D funding programme might provide more diffuse support for industry and be more open to non-EU countries, a document apparently leaked from the European Commission suggests.

Elsevier has launched Mendeley Data, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help universities and researchers manage, share and showcase their research data. With Mendeley Data, researchers can safely record and share research data while improving its reuse via publication, while universities can showcase institutional outputs and improve their collaboration rate.

China’s much-anticipated brain initiative finally starts to take shape.

The announcement of ERC Advanced Grants, worth a total of €653 million, benefiting 269 senior researchers across Europe. 

Elsevier will be providing data to guide EU policy decisions that it stands to gain from materially in significant ways.

It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side.

Top researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have called for a boycott of the South Korean university KAIST after it opened a lab with the defense firm Hanwha Systems.

Elsevier has reported a median pay gap of 40%, more than twice the UK average of 18.4% and the highest yet reported by a publishing company.

US government examines whether criteria for participating in drug studies unnecessarily exclude some people.

The latest drafts of the copyright regulations in the EU have triggered a wave of criticism from open-science advocates saying that the proposals will stifle research and scholarly communication.

Expansion of US carrier associated with an increase in partnerships of more than 30 percent.

"This will NOT happen again," an NIH official promised an alcohol industry lobbyist in an email, referring to a study linking marketing to underage drinking.

Negotiations between the publisher and a national consortium of academic institutions have reached a stalemate.

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Next Einstein Forum and Elsevier launch a megajournal to boost African research and collaboration.

The UK’s continued participation in European Union research programmes and bodies such as the European Medicines Agency should be among the criteria by which a Brexit deal is judged, MPs have said.

Finding purpose and meaning in the lab.

Dr Patrick Vallance starts in his role as Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) today.