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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers.
As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies that aim to profit from our writing and offer little transparency as to how our work will be used in the future.
The research commissioner Carlos Moedas has named the panel of 15 advisers who will steer the launch of the European Innovation Council.
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of NIH, "has been held over by the Trump administration," although it's unclear whether Trump may nominate a successor.
Open-science advocate says journals should be clearer to peer-reviewers about terms and conditions.
Does that mean the original research was wrong? No. It means science is really, really hard.
Meta.ai is joining the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
The 2017 Innovative Seed Grant Program is accepting proposals for interdisciplinary ventures on the CU Boulder campus, due Feb. 12. The program has set aside $1 million to fund grants of up to $50,000 each.
The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Vaccines work, climate change is real — and scientists’ tweets for the Trump administration.
Meet the former Enron trader and hedge fund founder who's on a quest to expose bad science.
Scientists ponder functionality of open science approach in the wake of Tanenbaum Open Science Institute announcement
Please cosign the statement below if you think the NIH should give scientists the option of using preprints as evidence of productivity in grant applications, following the recent policies of the Wellcome Trust, MRC, HFSP, Simons Foundation, and Helmsley Foundation.
Cut-throat atmosphere in world-class labs and conferences closer to House of Cards than Big Bang Theory, says Swiss academic
A geneticist's decision not to publish his finalized preprint in a journal gets support from scientists online.
Long-serving geneticist to stay in position for time being
Global partnership launched in Davos to prevent epidemics with new vaccines.
A project that tried to reproduce the results of 50 landmark papers turned into an arduous slog—and that’s a problem in itself.
Mixed results from cancer replications unsettle field.
Legislation proposed by State Rep. Rick Brattin, a Republican, would also fix a "broken" system by requiring public colleges to publish the price of individual degrees and the job prospects for students who earn them.
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.
Academics in Japan are bitterly divided over defence ministry grants to universities for defence-related research.
