Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer.

The Institute of Medicine takes a step in the right direction but we should move even faster.

Real scientific controversies are self-correcting shows the BICEP2 and Planck example.

An interview with John Ioannidis, co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford.

Professors issue warning over obsession with performance management and research excellence.

Corruption is a barrier to innovation. Greater scrutiny of public spending is needed if science and technology are to fulfil their potential.

A startup accelerator called "Scholas.Labs" was announced during an education event hosted by Pope Francis.

A survey finds that 87% of scientists agree with the statement “Scientists should take an active role in public policy debates about issues related to science and technology.

Analysis of millions of papers finds that junior biomedical researchers tend to work on more innovative topics than their senior colleagues do.

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A new JAMA study found the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is silent on matters of scientific misconduct and fraud.

The European Commission says its outside experts have agreed there must be more integration, better infrastructure and an emphasis on concrete results.

Male professors are brilliant, awesome and knowledgeable. Women are bossy and annoying, and beautiful or ugly. These are a few of the results from a new interactive chart that was gaining notice on social media.

NIH's proposal-an "emeritus" award that senior scientists would use to pass their work on to younger colleagues and wind down their labs is being blasted in the blogosphere.

A new computer simulation explores just how sensitive the process might be to bias and randomness. Its answer: very.

Why the Norwegian Research Council is taking a stand against hybrid Open Access journals.

Surveys find broad support for government to spend money on science, but that doesn’t mean the public supports the conclusions that scientists draw.

White House plan would increase research and development funding but faces rough road in Congress.

Article in German.

Amid sanctions and a financial crisis, Dmitry Livanov discusses ongoing reforms to science funding.

Plans to double the government's investment in fighting antibiotic resistance by spreading roughly $1.2 billion in funding across several federal agencies.

The 100 most international universities in the world 2015.

In his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama spent a few seconds announcing a "Precision Medicine Initiative," but did little to explain what he has in mind.

The Wellcome Trust launches the new Collaborative Awards, enabling teams of researchers to apply together and bring new perspectives to the work they are doing.

Women shy away from fields in which talent, not hard work, is thought to be key, survey suggests.

The European Research Council (ERC) would lose €221 million, mostly in 2016 and 2017.

A few professional scientists have found a sneaky way to cheat their way up the career ladder. They evaluate their own research by pretending to be someone else.

Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.

Institutions 'unbending' on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume. Meanwhile, a deal that meets the universities’ requirements was made with Springer.