New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’. 

A new book by actor Alan Alda is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.

Free movement and ECJ jurisdiction seen as potential stumbling blocks at Russell Group's meeting with MEPs

President Donald Trump's administration has brought a long-simmering debate over how the U.S. government supports university research back to a boil.

Oxford’s decision on compulsory retirement raises pressing questions about fairness – and what is best for academia as a whole.

Publons wants scientists to be rewarded for assessing others’ work.

We’re moving the online journal forward, and we hope you’ll join us on our journey.

Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications

Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.

Horizon 2020 found to be meeting its objectives, but is underfunded

Race-blind reviews very difficult and may not help, researchers say

Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors.

Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.

Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.

This feature enables users to update the record’s files after they have been made public and researchers to easily cite either specific versions of a record or to cite, via a top-level DOI, all the versions of a record.

Papers with female first authors receive 10% fewer citations than comparable work published by men, according to a new study

A few years back, scientists at the biotechnology company Amgen set out to replicate 53 landmark studies that argued for new approaches to treat cancers using both existing and new molecules. They were able to replicate the findings of the original research only 11 percent of the time.

Containerization technology takes the hassle out of setting up software and can boost the reproducibility of data-driven research.

Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.

A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research.

Good looking, sociable people don’t make good scientists, according to popular stereotypes.

If you took Psychology 101 in college, you probably had to enroll in an experiment to fulfill a course requirement or to get extra credit.

May 28-31, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cornerstone of modern science immortalized in concrete.

Republicans take aim at NSF but miss the mark

Report urges academy to ‘embrace’ opportunities for wider research dissemination

Agency officials say flexibility and protecting the core were the keys.

A documentary in which the disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield alleges that a link between vaccines and autism has been covered up by the US government is to be shown at the Cannes film festival.

Some fields will have a tougher time than others finding alternative sources.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised for health reforms in his own country, takes the helm at a critical time.