The University of California System remains a model blueprint despite Berkeley’s travails, and one the UK would do well to copy, says Alan Ryan

An outspoken biologist uses social media as a megaphone as he calls out his colleagues for hyping their research findings and ignoring women scientists.

Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates

Many Italians have refused to take part in the country’s research assessment exercise. Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao consider the protest’s impact

Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully

We are gratified when a politician shows that they know about science, but they all should.

Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated.

There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.

Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.

The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system

As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.

The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.

And how to fix them. By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus.

Scientific journal policies, physics' head start with arXiv, and differences in the culture of the two disciplines may all play a role.

Chief of new cancer immunotherapy institute explains

As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars

No member state has ever left the European Union, by Anne Glover

Although there has been a welcome increase in discussion about gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), broad participation of women from all backgrounds in academic STEM will not be achieved until institutions are transformed.

Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today’s academy, doublethinks Eric Blair

The advantages of making scientific data available for further analysis are clear, but it could also enable the trawling of data to find significant, or preferred, results.

Two high-profile cases in which universities — who by US law are the ones that must open an investigation into misconduct — stonewalled the effort.

A. Hope Jahren on women, research, and life in the lab.

The United States leads the world in dollars invested in research. It won’t for long.

By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience

Elite scientists generally agree on what character traits make for excellent science.

David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing

Is UK science better off in or out of the EU? The arguments are complex and only partially evidence-based. And that’s not surprising.

Content piracy may be illegal, but price gouging is at least as despicable.

A professional body for UK social scientists can help to improve research practice — and not just in public engagement, says Andrew Webster.

Do publications (number and impact) convey the true value of an early-career scientist?