The awarding of the grants comes as the Trump administration has proposed slashing federal science budgets and has dropped out of the Paris climate accord.

"We've been very concerned for a long time about the difference in success rates for men and women applying to our various schemes," said Professor Anne Kelso, CEO of the NHMRC.

Larger political deal achieves a long-standing goal of scientific community, but hard tasks lie ahead.

We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p -value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your result is a false positive?

Worries over the cost of an education spill over into protests.

Giving EU nationals the right to remain in the UK will boost confidence, say observers. 

Joint publication from EU and UK negotiators confirms EU-funded research will be protected and citizens’ rights upheld.

A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.

Max Planck is latest European institution to embrace hiring strategy that limits certain openings to female candidates.

Everipedia, a two-year-old online encyclopedia, will become a decentralized, peer-to-peer, user-owned resource.

A vision for an ambitious, close and achievable future agreement on research and innovation.

The Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science show that it is crucial to support researchers in leading their groups well.

Rwanda is the global leader in terms of percentage of women in government, but the idea of women in positions of leadership is still seen as a taboo.

In trying to thwart predators, the government is penalizing researchers who publish in genuine open-access journals.

After years of budget and political pressure, some climate scientists are changing the way they describe their research, and avoiding the term "climate change."

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.