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.

An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.

One major factor is the significant gender inequity that exists in the recruitment, promotion and retention of female faculty and staff scientists.

Nature peers into the evidence for ‘psychographic targeting’.

The NIH announced in December 2017 that it would rereview dozens of applications that might have been compromised in terms of confidentiality.

Life Science Alliance is a global, open-access, editorially independent, and peer-reviewed journal launched by an alliance of EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

In an interview with WIRED, French President Emmanuel Macron describes his plans to enhance the country's AI efforts—and differentiate them from those in the US.

I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children  

I’m in graduate school to learn, and preprints—draft versions of journal articles that are shared prior to peer review—offer a great opportunity to do just that. Here’s how preprints help young researchers grow in ways traditional types of scientific communication don’t.

French president announces ambitious plan to boost artificial intelligence research and lure talent to France.

A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.

The SNSF is strengthening publishing Open Access: as of 1 April 2018, it will be easier to publish books and journal articles that are openly accessible.