Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.

Pension fund for academics funded by Cancer Research UK invested £211m in British American Tobacco last year

Observers are skeptical goal can be achieved

All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020. EU member states want to achieve optimal reuse of research data. They are also looking into a European visa for foreign start-up founders.

Government decree takes €256 million out of research coffers this year

From 2017 onward, any new articles accepted for publication within ACS peer-reviewed journals that are submitted by a Corresponding Author affiliated with a Dutch university or other participating research institution will be published open access, without extra fees to the author.

Biochemist and former director of NIH’s basic research institute has long been involved in science policy

Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research.

What do the world’s six most reputed universities have in common?

It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.

NSF surveys generate what seem to be conflicting data on the status of those entering the scientific job market

Preprints uploaded to a public server without formal review can speed up the sharing of biomedical information without harming the scientific process.

It’s not for oil or guns. It’s for plagiarized dissertations. And every self-respecting doctor, lawyer, and politician in the country wants one.

From building the biggest experiments the world has ever seen to rolling out the latest medical advances on a massive scale and pushing the boundaries of exploration from the deepest ocean to outer space - China’s scientific ambitions are immense.

Labour law will change how many postdocs — long a troubled segment of the US research hierarchy — are paid.

Just two factors explain post-PhD pay gap: Study of 1,200 US graduates suggests family and choice of doctoral field dents women's earnings.

Like junior doctors, early career biomedical researchers have an issue with contracts (or lack of them). So why don’t we strike too?

Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens and how he needed to crowdfund the resources to analyse the data.

According to the SNSF, 40% of scientific publications produced with the support of public funding are openly accessible, which makes Switzerland “progressive” compared with other countries.

Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR

A science writer challenges the sceptics community to move beyond tackling just ‘easy’ issues.

Report reveals how critical fields of research, and particular regions of the country, would fare should EU funding dry up

Why We Support New Federal Overtime Rules.

Graduate students struggling with the stresses of their work and lives can tap into multiple avenues of support.

The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.

Launched twenty years ago this week, EurekAlert has tracked, and in some ways shaped, the way science is covered in the digital era.

Scientists are now contemplating the fabrication of a human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes.

A group of researchers has released a data set on nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid. The data dump breaks the cardinal rule of social science research ethics: It took identifiable personal data without permission.

Half a billion dollars are being pledged to study the microbes in humans, crops, soils, oceans, and more.

All they needed to be more open with their data was the promise of a badge showing they did it.