The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans last week to impose a new grant scoring system that would cap how much support an investigator can receive from the agency.

Analysis of scholarly publishing’s ‘Napster’ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research. 35 per cent of articles downloaded from Sci-Hub were less than two years old when they were accessed.

Rise in copyright breaches prompts industry to discuss ways to allow ‘fair sharing’ of articles.

New York City investor organized discussion to explain biomedical “ecosystem” to Trump officials

A $2 million crowdfunding campaign will finance an ambitious series of studies—designed under the watchful eye of the FDA—into psychedelics as treatment.

At the halfway point of the EU’s biggest research and innovation funding programme, Horizon 2020, we explore a selection of EU-funded projects whose breakthroughs could help to shape Europe during the next 60 years.

It's hard to believe how "far ahead" China is on this front until you see it with your own eyes.

An analysis shining light on institutions that have thought outside the box on research collaboration and funding.

Researchers await detailed policies while applauding his defeat of Le Pen

The “swarm” of insights picked the top four finishers last year. Not this year.

Here’s how the agency is trying to change that

The winning entries from the first SNSF Scientific Image Competition offer a view of science that is aesthetic, nuanced and complex.

Funders should force universities to support laboratories’ research health

Negotiators fail to reach a deal with Oxford University Press (OUP) over transition to open access

The "Doing the Right Thing Award" honors anyone involved in science — publisher, author, editor, whistleblower — who has fought the good fight for scientific integrity.

Louisiana State University (LSU) takes Elsevier to court in an attempt to settle a disagreement with the publisher about its $1.64 million contract.

The Open Science FAIR 2017 is proud to hold its inaugural international conference on all topics related to Open Science during 6-8 September, Athens.

Female engineers who work at Facebook may face gender bias that prevents their code from being accepted at the same rate as male counterparts, according to internal company studies disclosed today.

Alfredo Fusco denies claims that his research lab hired a photo studio to manipulate images.

A practical peer review training course for early career researchers developed together with expert academics and editors to teach you the core competencies and skills needed of a peer reviewer.

Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit on February 27, 2017, against international science publisher Elsevier B.V. for breach of contract resulting from the publisher’s exclusion of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine from accessing content licensed by the LSU Libraries.

Thanks to crowdfunding, Swiss university students can build an airplane and solve an energy problem. But is this the best way to finance good science?

The NIH will get a $2 billion funding hike under a bipartisan spending agreement reached late Sunday, as Congress rebuffed Trump's call for cuts.

Online survey suggests that first-time protesters and nonresearchers swelled the ranks at the weekend pro-science event

Scientific community calls on voters not to support the candidate of the National Front

In the battle against fake news, a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town is on the front lines. Armed with a decade of machine learning expertise, he is part of a British start-up that will soon release an automated fact-checking tool ahead of the country’s election in early June.

The online encyclopaedia is inaccessible under an official order, but no reason for this is given.

Scientists at Nanjing University are using a gene-editing process called Crispr-Cas9 to hack into DNA—giving them the power to add, edit and delete genes with great precision.

With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.

An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.