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.

SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets.

Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.

Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.

Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come.

A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders and advocates for diversity and equity.

Researchers hold out little hope that the next government will improve their underfunded research system.​

Results show marked improvement compared with 2013 version of the survey, but union says ‘culture shift’ is taking time.

The European Commission (EC) is currently working on an implementation plan and a roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which should then be adopted on 28 May. EOSC should offer 1.7 million European researchers and 70 million professionals in science and technology a virtual environment with open seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines.

Some see National Science Foundation move as latest retreat in US diplomacy under Trump administration – but agency says it will send more science envoys on visits abroad.

The country's dedicated science fund has failed to raise enough money to finance projects.

African universities have been urged to foster gender equality, parity and mentoring of girls and early career women scientists in STEM, in order to facilitate economic transformation and other developmental challenges affecting the East African region.