Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.

In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft are protesting a looming injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to or offering services to several "pirate" sites.

Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe.

NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase to seek best practices for developing and managing a data commons.

The American Chemical Society was granted an unprecedented injunction which requires search engines and ISPs to block Sci-Hub.

Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.

The Financial Times disclosed that Springer Nature has blocked access in China to at least 1,000 articles from the websites of two of its journals in response to Beijing’s censorship demands.

A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.

The planned overhaul would place new tax burdens on colleges and students, and some critics argue that it could undermine charitable giving to the institutions.

Reporters and editors at the local news sites joined a union last week. On Thursday, their billionaire owner closed the sites.

W. M. Keck Observatory chief scientist to lead investments in astronomy, chemistry, physics, materials science and mathematics research.

Clarivate Analytics identifies 143 prominent areas of scientific research over the past years.

Rand Paul wants to add two people to every federal peer-review panel evaluating research proposals, charged with looking for value to taxpayers. Science advocates say idea would politicize federal funding of research.

High price of journals 'placing strain on acceptance' of division of labour between researchers and publishers, says professor.

The enthusiasm for science education rests on the assumption that these fields are flush with opportunity. Physicists, go digital.

Public Money, Public Code is a campaign of the Free Software Foundation Europe that seeks to transform that ideal into European law.

COOPETIC-Recherche, a platform supporting scientists selling their research skills and knowledge to academic and industry clients.

Analysis of universities' salary data suggests major disparities in pay for early-career researchers.

Critics say selection process for high-stakes funding programme is flawed.

Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.

The Marcel Benoist Prize – the “Swiss Nobel Prize” for science – is to get a new look ahead of its centenary.

Four Penn professors have signed a petition calling on the U.S. News & World Report to alter its rankings by docking points from schools that underpay adjunct faculty members.

Alibaba wants to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The advisory board includes Harvard's geneticist George Church and others.

The city of Lausanne was chosen to host the 11th World Conference of Science Journalists.

Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.

Some of the colleagues of a professor couple facing bullying allegations at the ETH Zurich have written an open letter of support.

"Artificial Intelligence, genetics, blockchain: science is at the core of today's most promising breakthrough innovations", says Moedas.

More than 400 Pennsylvanians have already learned of disease mutations.

About 40 scientific unions and associations plus 140 national and regional science academies and research councils will be subsumed under the umbrella organisation.