A new study commenced work at the start of 2017: the “Next Generation Researchers Initiative,” directed by the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine.

The world’s first professor of play – funded by Lego – is being sought by Cambridge University.

A popular blog that lists “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals has disappeared, but it is not clear why.

Recent changes in the political landscape in Northern Europe have brought some new policies that are less supportive of science and education than previously.

Strategies to promote European competitiveness in innovation.

Academics in Japan are bitterly divided over defence ministry grants to universities for defence-related research.

New device will probe smog and other chemical reactions in gases.

Jeffrey Beall’s blog was shut down for an unknown reasons.

The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars.

The Research Council of Norway will play a key role in implementing the cross-sectoral strategy that forms the basis for national investment in the bioeconomy.

Nearly half of the AI companies acquired since 2011 have had Venture Capital backing.

Shift in focus comes in response to a changing world order and the threat of terrorism.

Reproducibility guru, former defence-research official and controversial entrepreneur rumoured to be on list, along with current NIH leader and a congressman.

Publications such as Nature and Science have policies that clash with the global health charity's open-access mandate.

Shouldn't all research be, first and foremost, accessible? Accessibility underpins equality.

For biomedical Ph.D. holders, doing a postdoc means earning about 20% less in the first 15 years after finishing their degrees, according to a new study

As of January 2017, the Wellcome Trust will permit researchers to cite preprints, or pre-peer reviewed manuscripts, in their grant applications and end-of-grant review reports.

Paris's École 42 is reinventing education for the future

The technique could be faster and more versatile than developing GMO crops from scratch.

A career in research has surged in popularity among Japanese school boys – even if their female counterparts have not yet been attracted to the vocation is similar numbers

Fake news has been in the news a lot lately. Fake news proliferated wildly during the 2016 U.S. election, much of it completely fabricated, usually with an extreme partisan bias. Fake news is corrosive. It mis-informs the public, divides people against one another, leads to bad policy decisions, and can even induce people to take action against imaginary threats.

Completion of department and agency public access plans means the public will have greater access to publications and data resulting from Federally-funded research.

Many researchers also object to proposed higher-education reforms, says survey.

Innovation is a huge part of economic growth – and the White House needs to be well-informed on science and tech issues when setting goals and budgets. Here's how presidents get up to speed.

2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome

The Canadian government is again in the midst of its annual consultations on innovation. It seems our efforts to find the magic key to an “innovative economy” just never go away. By Aled Edwards, CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium and professor at the University of Toronto.

As talks with the publisher stall, researchers in the country weigh whether they can cope without a deal

Scientists in Taiwan, Germany, and Peru will lose access to more than 12,000 scientific journals after institutions boycott the publishing giant for high prices and minimal open-access options.

The 2016 vote to leave the European Union (EU) shocked British scientists. We propose an eight-point plan to limit the immediate damage and to put U.K. science on the front foot in the wake of the Brexit vote.

In Germany, negotiations between scientific publishing company Elsevier and a consortium of hundreds of universities, technical schools, research institutes, and public libraries stalled in December 2016. As a result, more than 60 institutions have lost their online access to Elsevier's journals effective 1 January, although some can still access archived articles published before that date. The price of the journals is only part of the problem.