Survey results released last week by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) included an interesting nugget. Some 72% of respondents said that they had been unable to replicate a published experimental result. Yet a higher proportion (77%) said that they had never been told that their work could not be replicated.

Another domino has fallen in a chain of retractions for Robert Weinberg, the man who discovered the first tumor-causing gene in humans.

Women in university leadership are paid up to 11.4% less than men in equivalent jobs, according to a [10]new study.

Critics of the present system of science funding say it's rather like modern football where the richest clubs are the most successful, which makes them even richer enabling them to continue to be successful.

Dynasty Foundation liquidated after Ministry of Justice labels it a 'foreign agent'.

A provision in a new biomedical innovation bill passed last week in the House of Representatives would create a new program to launch prize competitions at the NIH.

Miguel Seabra has stepped down as president of research-advocacy group Science Europe with immediate effect. Elisabeth Monard, secretary-general of the Research Foundation Flanders, will be acting president until it elects a new president at its general assembly in November.

The country's economic crisis is hitting researchers hard.

The Netherlands are negotiating with publishers about an OA policy. They managed to achieve agreements with some publishers, but not with Elsevier.

"Our impressions here in the US will help us develop ways to continue innovating in Switzerland," said Schneider-Ammann.

1 in 10 of Europe's academics apparently produce nearly half of its research output.

The case of Dong-Pyou Han illustrates the uneven nature of penalties for scientific misconduct.

London Mayor is proposing a $16 billion fund to encourage growth of emerging health-care companies in the U.K. in an effort to catch up to biotechnology clusters in the US.

When the Francis Crick Institute opens in London this year, it will be Europe’s largest biomedical research centre. Can director Paul Nurse make this gamble pay off for UK science?

Although a person's political views are a strong predictor of their attitudes on climate change and a handful of energy issues, their gender, age, religion, race, or education play a larger role on many other controversial topics.

In a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, Sci-Hub.org is facing millions of dollars in damages. However, the site has no intentions of backing down and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.

La biologiste Nouria Hernandez devrait devenir la première rectrice de l'Université de Lausanne. Elle succédera à Dominique Arlettaz dès le 1er août 2016.

A nonprofit's effort to replicate 50 top cancer papers is shaking up labs.

Science posted the most comprehensive [3]guidelines for the publication of studies in basic science to date, calling for the adoption of clearly defined rules on the sharing of data and methods.

The Federal Council has launched three new NRPs: "Medi/Healthcare", "Antimicrobial Resistance", and "Big Data".

Importance of doctoral candidates in research makes it likely that many institutions will make the change, says principal.

ORCID will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc.

Italy will be implementing ORCID on a national scale. 70 universities and 4 research centers will initially participate in the consortium.

The US government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications. Scientists would need to reconsider what they can discuss with graduate students from other countries, or when traveling abroad on work trips.

Thierry Mandon replaces Geneviève Fioraso, who stepped down in March for health reasons, leaving France without anyone heading the research brief for three months.

Carlos Moedas has proposed setting up a European Innovation Council to fund applied research and innovation.

Pope Francis squarely blames the burning of fossil fuels for climate change in the leaked draft of his long-awaited environmental encyclical.

Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.

Researchers hope that a more pluralistic parliament will put an end to interference and slipping standards.

Productive researchers with high-impact papers and those working in countries were the pressure to publish is intense are less likely to produce retracted papers and are more likely to correct them.