When conducting research involving the testing of human biospecimens, investigators and their institutions should routinely consider whether and how to return individual research results on a study-specific basis through an informed decision-making process, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Machine learning on mountain of safety data improves automated assessments.

Revised rules are designed to help researchers focus on their work and compete with their counterparts globally.

Proposed body would monitor universities to ensure that allegations of malpractice are properly investigated.

Today we're announcing a GBP250m not-for-profit fund. Director Jeremy Farrar explains how the new Wellcome Leap Fund will accelerate discovery and innovation.

A group of European funders, including the European Commission, will soon require researchers to publish only in open-access outlets that the funders consider high quality, the Commission’s open-access envoy has said.

Science and Technology Committee publish report on research integrity

From July 2018, the Europe PMC repository will start indexing preprints.

One of the world’s largest biomedical research charities is setting up a new initiative to fund outside-the-box science.

A new search engine that aims to connect nonacademics with open-access research will be launched this fall. Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. The site will be built by Impactstory in conjunction with the Internet Archive and the British Library.

Rapidly produced and highly topical digital humanities projects are challenging perceptions of the field.

An investigative report uncovers little recognized and unpoliced potential conflicts of interest among those who serve on FDA advisory panels that review drugs. FDA may also have missed or judged insignificant financial ties physicians had before their service on the drug approval advisory panels.

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, resigned on 5 July amid a series of ethical and spending scandals throughout his 16 months at the agency.

The European Parliament has paused the progress of controversial EU copyright proposals, which R&D organisations have said would be damaging for innovation, meaning they could now be revised.

France’s new national plan to activate Open Science - presented by the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frédérique Vidal, at LIBER’s 2018 Annual Conference.

An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims.

Swiss participation in some of the EU’s largest and most prestigious funding programmes is being threatened by rules proposed for 2021-27.

Latest statements from research, industry or other organisations to the European Commission’s Horizon Europe proposal.

Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, launched the national open science plan at the annual congress of the Association of European Research Library (LIBER).

Horizon 2020: the practice of conducting ethically dubious research in foreign countries is under fresh scrutiny.

Dr. Jon Tennant’s June 29 article in The Guardian Online, "Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe," raises fundamental questions about open science, and is coupled with misinformation about Elsevier’s role. Both deserve a response.

Oliver says gene editing is "going to cure all disease or kill every last one of us".

Stencila launches the first version of its word processor and spreadsheet editor designed for researchers.

What are researchers to do when they lose confidence in their previously published work? A new project has an answer. Will it help the replication crisis?

New interface shifts from journal metrics to journal intelligence, offering richer data and greater transparency for comprehensive assessment.

eLife authors are being invited to take part in a trial in which they decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review.

AfricArXiv (African Science Archive) is a new and free open access repository on Science in Africa for African scientists to share their research outputs in all scientific fields.

The Trump Administration appears to be removing references to climate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mission statement.

More than 100 researchers describe their work and the struggles they face, including gender bias and achieving a positive work-life balance.

New IBM system shows off argumentation skills.