Last month I found myself sitting on a leather couch, my black dress smoothed over my knees, in a hushed wood-paneled room in Washington, D.C.

What few details appear in 2018 blueprint shock Congress and community.

Broader forms of activism are needed to protect evidence-based policy.

Carlos Moedas sees a bold future for the European Research Council and more projects that copy its approach.

"Simply put, we can’t keep preparing children for a world that doesn’t exist."

Does the closing of @AxiosReview portend the end of independent peer review, or just the wrong business model?

My uncle immigrated to the United States in 1956 with no assets, a brilliant mind, ambition, and a faith that America was a great country of opportunity. He escaped from Hungary, a country of communists, at the time a source of great fear among many US politicians. If the US President at his time were making policy similar to our President today, my uncle would’ve never been allowed in the US.

How a seemingly innocent blog post led to serious doubts about Cornell’s famous food laboratory.

Today's robots and artificial intelligence look very different from the androids conceived by Isaac Asimov.

Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.

It’s a bloodbath.

For those researchers, the pressure to publish is intense, as they vie for the few jobs at the heads of academic labs. This atmosphere can lead to mistakes.

Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?

While Trump takes aim at immigration, foreign trainees consider taking their talents elsewhere

Misconduct in academia isn’t rampant but should be taken more seriously: let’s consider independent anti-corruption units

We asked three experts for their takes.

Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.

Trump has moved to fill just one of 46 top science posts requiring Senate confirmation.

If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way.

Computational thinking and techniques are so central to the quest of understanding life that today all biology is computational biology.

Maths is often a quiet contributor to problems in subjects like biology.

The European Research Council has earned a reputation for quality—and for being risk averse

The ability to participate in science has always been political. On International Women’s Day, scientists must decide how best to defend women’s rights

The gender and racial gaps in scientific professions illustrate the need for greater inclusion at all levels.

Without any doubt, the journal impact factor (IF) is one of the most debated scientometric indicators. Especially the use of the IF for assessing individual articles and their authors is highly controversial.

Although researchers have relied on international resources such as the Protein Data Bank and Flybase for decades, the current system is unsustainable because it is largely funded by short-term grants.

Research on collective recall takes on new importance in a post-fact world.

I learned not to develop any hard feelings against the reviewers or the editors...

‘Leaky pipeline’ stands the test of time, with overall progress for women in research continuing at a crawl.

Limited public funds for scientific research are being spent on reformatting manuscripts for different journals, without any apparent gain for science or society.