AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies.

Technology could be used to wipe out malaria carrying mosquitos or other pests but UN experts say fears over possible military uses and unintended consequences strengthen case for a ban.

EU research ministers have backed away from calling for a major funding increase for the bloc’s next research and innovation Framework programme.

Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly.

The latest 2016 Canadian census information was released this week. Lots of statistics relating to labour, education, commutes to work and migration, among other things.

Though women earn significantly more bachelor’s degrees than men, they are substantially less likely to obtain a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.

Unfettered inquiry now has a publishing outlet.

"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon

When a clinical trial falters, doctors find themselves sifting through the rubble.

Understanding that vaccines are critical to public health and human-driven carbon emissions are un-terraforming the planet cannot be the purview of the one percent.

The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives awards a fellowship each year either to an unconventional technology expert early in his/her career, or a scholar or activist working at the intersection of humanities, social sciences and technology studies or technological solutions.

"It’s clear we are a long way from artificial general intelligence." - Erik Brynjolfsson

According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.

Riko Muranaka awarded prize for efforts to explain jabs’s safety amid scare campaigns which have seen Japanese vaccination rate fall from over 70% to 1%.

NIH recommendations to identify credible journals.

A researcher specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder is facing jail time for allegedly embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of federal grant money.

Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the state’s burgeoning—and notoriously combative—anti-vaccine movement.

Bringing €100 billion to the European economy.

The National Academy of Sciences called on the federal government to make drastic policy changes to bring down the cost of prescription medicines.

“Bombshell”, a new documentary film, tells the story of a studio star and pioneer of wireless technology.

The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.

Commission aims to provide instant access to data stores across Europe, but some scientists worry about governance, control and costs.

European national education systems are becoming more inclusive and effective.

EU leaders highlighted their political support for enhanced cooperation in education.

329 Consolidator Grants worth €630 million.

Short-term visits are nixed for now, as Trump administration policies cool off U.S.-Cuba science relations

Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility. 

Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.

Climate updates describes how our understanding of the science of climate change, and its impacts, have progressed since the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.