Despite the high priority that is placed on STEM in schools, efforts to expand female interest and employment in STEM are not working as well as intended. Ways to better support young women include interactive projects, and mentoring from parents and community members. "We need to teach girls that it is all right to sit with the discomfort of not knowing the right answer right away."

That's a myth, as Daniele Fanelli of the London School of Economics suggests in this week’s PNAS.

It wasn’t scientists who discovered the thin, purple, east-to-west travelling glow in the northern night sky, but people with cameras and a nerdy passion for auroras.

The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: We will miss him for ever.

With Vladimir Putin set to earn another presidential term, researchers wonder whether his government will reverse decades of decline.

Like Darpa, Jedi will aim to deliver developmental milestones along the path to strategically important technologies, including through prototyping. It will sit between academia and industry and fund projects lasting no more than two years.

Explore the top 200 most international universities in the world using data from the Times Higher Education World University Rankings: EPFL and ETHZ in the lead.

The scientists, from the UK, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries, warn that stronger measures are needed to keep global warming under 2 degrees.

Around half of researchers already publish their work with open access, according to a comprehensive survey carried out by the Main Library of the University of Zurich. Besides a number of positive results, the survey also revealed a need for more information.

The largest share of open-access articles belongs to a new category described as “bronze”: articles are available on websites hosted by their publisher - either immediately or following an embargo - but are not formally licensed for reuse.

The MIT will work with a private firm to develop technology for producing energy from nuclear fusion within the next 15 years.

Online learning provider Coursera, which works with university partners around the world, is launching six new fully online degree courses.

A major new study published in the journal Science finds that false rumors on Twitter spread much more rapidly, on average, than those that turn out to be true. Interestingly, the study also finds that bots aren’t to blame for that discrepancy. People are.

Women are underrepresented in academic science. New research finds the problem is even worse in terms of who authors high-profile journal articles – bad news for women's career advancement.

Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers.

Nature journals encourage researchers who submit papers that rely on custom software to provide the programs for peer review.

Pioneering dementia scientist Prof John Hardy to donate prize money to anti-Brexit group.

Study finds "strikingly high" rates of depression and anxiety, with many reporting little help or support from supervisors.

Fixing the problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the literature.

Given significant changes in publishing research article over the past dozen or so years, the Wellcome Trust thinks the time is right to look again at its OA policy.

Reporting summaries help authors to provide important details before review.

The altering of the Chinese national constitution to remove the text limiting China’s president and vice-president to two terms, cementing Xi Jinping’s leadership possibly for the next two decades, will mean a further ideological tightening in universities, and an extension of ‘Xi Jinping research’ in institutions.

HRB Open Research is a platform for rapid, open access publication and open peer review of any research funded by the Health Research Board.

On his last day in one of the most powerful research seats in Europe, Robert-Jan Smits talks about his legacy and the future.

Elsevier announced a partnership with a nonprofit named Hypothesis, which makes annotation software that lets readers make margin notes on online articles.

Pension changes spur more than 40,000 university academics to walk out on research activities, conferences and lectures.

Canada's 2018 budget includes almost Can$4 billion (US$3.1 billion) in new funding for science over the next five years. This is in contrast to the Can$1 billion in new science funding contained in last year's budget - almost none of which went to basic research.

Anja Karliczek is little known in science policy circles.

Kathryn Clancy has spent years studying how sexual harassment pervades science. This week, she’s taking those findings to Congress.