For 40 years, the Office of Science and Technology Policy has closely counseled the President, but its role in the new administration is unclear.

Researchers naturally want their work to make a difference, but the sad fact is that it often has little influence beyond academia

Early signs from the Trump transition team suggest a worrying assault on the role of science in policymaking. How should the scientific community respond?

Driving progress and building on success at the National Institutes of Health

The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.

The Trump administration is outlining policies that put our response to climate change in deep jeopardy and threaten to change the fundamental direction of science in the U.S.

Nine experts reflect on where researchers should direct their efforts during the next US administration.

Technology has evolved so much so that it now offers simple solutions to cut trough the paperwork and make the scientific process more efficient, more collaborative and altogether smarter.

Top science and tech talent could choose to set up in other countries that are more hospitable to their work.

Neuroscientist Ana Mingorance’s experience highlights some pointers for successfully making the move to industry.

The story of La Paillasse: an open lab which aims to cut out the intermediaries and create a much more open way of doing research, enabling to fast-prototype solutions to scientific problems.

The knowledge that we produce in our publicly funded works belongs to humankind and must not be locked up behind pay-walls— newly submitted papers should be open-access and older ones open-archive.

<p>The way we rank individuals and institutions simply does not work, argues Yves Gingras.</p>

How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?

Citizen science has the potential to make science and innovation more responsible, but it is not without controversy.

A modern digital state needs an effective data infrastructure.

There are big advantages to having scientists communicate in a common tongue, but there are drawbacks as well

An unbending reward system prevents early-career researchers taking full advantage of the digital world.

When we pay for federally funded research, we should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of FASTR, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act.

The U.S. depends on international collaborations and immigrants to solve domestic and global problems.

Following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, arrangements for the movement of people to and from the UK look likely to change.  Will scientists be affected?

Funders and publishers have something in common: for better or worse, we have the ability to influence the behavior of researchers.

Upheaval in the former superpower is bad for research and the wider world.

A vibrant scientific culture encourages many interpretations of evidence.

Government support for startups is underrated, says Mariana Mazzucato.

An MP’s dismissive tweet that scientists have ‘no experience of the real world’ highlights a chasm in mutual understanding.

Jim Smith is a Professor of Developmental Biology at the Francis Crick Institute.

When I first heard that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I was immediately jealous of the scientists who had won this year.

UK's universities will be the poorer for insistence on immigration controls.

Peer review publications remain a key stage in the quality assurance of new research, but some comments can be the stuff of nightmares.