Open Access, Open Science, Science 2.0 - die Titel, unter denen vom Internet eine Beschleunigung des Erkenntnisgewinns erwartet wird, sind vielfältig. Doch wem nützen die entsprechenden Techniken?

Scientists go to great lengths to ensure that data are collected and analysed properly, so why do they apply different standards to data about the number of times research papers have been cited and viewed?

There has been an upsurge in philanthropy for scientific research by America's billionaires. Still, in size and scope, philanthropy pales in comparison to public financing for science.

Merciless competition for jobs and funds pushes some researchers to spin data in the eternal quest for success

Should paywalls stand between the taxpaying public and publicly funded research? Congress recently decided that the answer should be "no."

Doubts over ground-breaking stem-cell research are just what the field needs.

Scientific mavericks once played an essential role in research. We must relearn how to support them and provide new options for an unforeseeable future.

US scientists should not be placated by the ‘flat budget’ myth. Funds are decreasing, and the situation will get worse.

Former Purdue University president France Córdova inherits an agency at a crossroads.

As online comments on newly published research become widespread, a new dilemma faces scientists wanting to enter the electronic fray: where to comment, and in what format for maximum impact?

Researchers in Switzerland lose out due to country's vote on immigration

Brian D. Wright and colleagues present data challenging the assumption that corporate-funded academic research is less accessible and useful to others.

As government financing of basic science research has plunged, private donors have filled the void, raising questions about the future of research for the public good.

As I am writing this article, I should be writing something else: an email to an editor, an email to an author, a letter of recommendation, notes for tomorrow’s classes, comments on students’ papers, comments on manuscripts, an abstract for an upcoming conference, notes for one of the books I’m working on.

Peter Gluckman, New Zealand's chief science adviser, offers his ten principles for building trust, influence, engagement and independence.

Is 2014 the year that Europe gets drug companies to publish all their data on the safety and effectiveness of medicines?

Science is now able to self-correct instantly. Post-publication peer review is here to stay.

Study of psychology departments finds that female full professors are less likely to co-author papers with lower ranking women

As universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is being imposed by force. The following is an edited transcript (prepared by Robin J. Sowards) of remarks given by Noam Chomsky last month to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Penn.

The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.'s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at the University of California at Berkeley, I was delighted to learn that about half of the incoming doctoral students in the biological sciences-and more than 30 percent in heavily male fields like chemistry and engineering-were women.

Mehr Schulen, mehr Abiturienten, mehr Lehrer und mehr Akademiker. Die Bildungsexpansion ist beispiellos. Fachleute streiten, wie lang sie weitergeht. Und wozu.

Higher education needs to break down the barriers that block pathways to cross-subject study.

Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.

Scientists are not as secular as people think.

Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don't matter in today's great debates.

Maybe the researchers deeply believed that their findings were true. But that is the problem. The more passionate scientists are about their work, the more susceptible they are to bias.

An interview with Professor Sydney Brenner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.

The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.

„Eine gute Forschungsstätte räumt Hindernisse aus dem Weg," meint Jürgen Knoblich, stellvertretender Direktor des Instituts für Molekulare Biotechnologie (IMBA) des ÖAW.

The EU's academic output is 20% higher than the US. This shouldn't really be a surprise given the EU's combined population of over 500m versus America's 300m. In fact, Europe produces a third of the world's research outputs and, like China, investment is being ramped up while UK and US investments are treading water.