As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.

Federal spending on science has dropped by half in 5 years.

A movement to make the fruits of research available without charge has helped students and faculty members gain access to an increasing number of academic articles.

Patreon works differently to most other crowdfunding services. On Patreon, you donate a small amount regularly.

Teaching scientists foundational computing skills.

Repurposing continuous integration tools for scientific analyses takes the headache out of reproducible research.

New Senate bill would add public members to all funding panels and reexamine some National Science Foundation proposals.

US-registered Central European University faces another year of uncertainty over whether it can continue to operate in Hungary.

SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American, is preparing a 2018 stock market listing valuing the company at up to 4 billion euros.

Agency staff wanted initiative on firearms violence to continue.

Concern mounts over budget cuts and other changes that undermine basic science.

A European Commission working group recommends Horizon 2020 evaluation process to account for gender issues.

Controversial policy means mainstream media are starting to rival rigorous academic publications in some universities in China.

Semantic Scholar search tool expands to include biomedical science literature.

Concern mounts over budget cuts and other changes that undermine basic science in Japan.

The review of artificial intelligence argues a new AI council should be created but it wouldn't be in charge of regulating systems

DFG approved the funding of 17 high-performance electron microscopes with a total sum of €43 million. Funding for seven microscopes, amounting to €24 million, was awarded in the spring.

How Anne Wojcicki led her company from the brink of failure to scientific pre-eminence.

Fraudulent research and faked peer reviews have led to a humiliating setback for China's goal of becoming a global leader in scientific research.

German libraries and universities want all German-authored papers to be freely available worldwide.

Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.

The philosophy behind the Registered Report format is that the intrinsic value of science is in the rigor of the method, not the appeal of the results.

He has long been a thorn in scientists’ sides. Today, Latour wants to help rebuild trust in science.

One prominent research journal just updated its description to explain why it won’t be perfect—and that’s great.

Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry laureates are not freely accessible.

In order to tempt nuclear scientists from countries such as Iran or North Korea to defect, US spy agencies routinely send agents to academic conferences – or even host their own fake ones.

Take-down notices “imminent” as lawsuit is filed alleging widespread copyright infringement.

In some subjects, the impact factor of journal articles is as good a reflection of research quality as judgements by a panel of experts.

Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic networking site, alleging copyright infringement on a mass scale.

New law would allow commercial planting of transgenic varieties in Uganda.