The current incentives structure — mostly based on publishing in prestigious journals — discourages sharing, replication, and, some argue, careful science.

However, director of the Oxford Martin School says 'disciplinary silos' were one factor contributing to 2008 financial crisis

A geeky prime minister wants to make the country more inventive.

The scientific community must do a better job confronting the issues facing women in science, our author writes

The problem of bias in published research must be tackled in a consistent and comprehensive fashion, says Adam G. Dunn.

Breaking down lengthy, narrative-driven biomedical articles into brief reports on singular observations or experiments could increase reproducibility and accessibility in the literature.

There’s a tension between Germany’s desire to be in the global elite of higher education while remaining egalitarian.

As long men can score points for producing mountains of output, women will never get a fair shot at academic promotion

A Princeton professor’s frankness hides the grim reality about work for many young people

Not a scientist? As David Lang shows, you can still play a meaningful role in solving science’s hardest problems.

Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.

Researchers are increasingly relying on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and its crowdsourced labor.

An Interview With Sir Timothy Gowers

Science magazine just published a great piece on the utility of Sci-Hub. Unfortunately, its defense of its own business model is flawed.

In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time.

13 tips to make submitting your paper a breeze

Concerns over AI are not simply fear-mongering. Progress in the field will affect society profoundly, and it is important to make sure that the changes benefit everyone.

David Kent breaks down an eLife article that suggests peer review scores cannot distinguish very good grants from excellent grants. In fact, at a certain point in the process, it is pretty much a random lottery.

Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won't stop unless we talk about it, says Tricia Serio.

The thirteen newer EU member states need to reform their national research systems to improve their participation in Horizon 2020, the European Commission’s director-general of research has said.

Turning scientific evidence into policy exposes a gulf between how scientists think and how policymakers work. Here’s what scientists need to know

Those judging creative scientific ideas fail to fully understand them, potentially hampering breakthroughs, research indicates

Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.

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.