What are the underlying mechanisms that cause disciplines to vary in their OA publishing practices.

Many undergraduates in the natural sciences will never take part in research, despite a willingness to learn. But their presence can teach others how to lead.

Gene targeted for its role in HIV is linked to increased severity of other infectious diseases - and could affect learning in mice.

Sea ice was thinner in late 2017 and much of 2018 than at any time in the last 30 years, while wild reindeer and caribou populations continue to decline.

What research caught the public imagination in 2018? Check out our annual list of papers with the most attention.

CRISPR is indeed an exciting and promising technology that's already affecting the lives of many people. That said, we should be cautious.

Psychology’s replication crisis has changed the field. Today, authors are voluntarily posting their data, replication attempts are published in top journals, and researchers are increasing their sample sizes and committing to data collection and analysis plans in advance.

If democracy depends on informed citizens, democracy is in trouble. This is a moment of crisis for many institutions, including higher education, especially in disciplines such as English, philosophy, and history, which promise to prepare students as citizens. To prepare students for a world where information is filtered by computers, we will need a stronger alliance between the humanities and math. This alliance has two reciprocal parts: cultural criticism of the mathematical models shaping our world, and mathematical inquiry about culture.

Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it.

The humanities subjects do not benefit from the research excellence framework. They need a better system.

Plan S implementation guidance has not provided reassurance to anxious society publishers.

More than 1,400 researchers sign an online letter arguing that Plan S will not impinge on academic freedom, as some critics claim.

A study evaluating two aspects of the selection process of the top-ranked applicants to the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship program in 2007.

 If science is growing exponentially, then the major technological advancements and upheavals of the past 200 years are only the tip of the iceberg.

How innovation in search engines needs renewing with open working and open indexes.

Misleading terminology and arbitrary divisions stymie drug trials and can give false hope about the potential of tailoring drugs to individuals, warns Stephen Senn.

A spate of bullying allegations have rocked several high-profile science institutions. Here's how researchers, universities, funders and others are dealing with the issue.

Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.

We want the research we fund - like publications, data, software and materials - to be open and accessible, so it can have the greatest possible impact.

The long read: The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and political upheavals. But it's too late to turn back the clock

A global sprint to develop 10 FAIR things resources for data in different disciplines.

The idea of the conference is to bring to the fore the impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative national and European research and innovation agendas, as well as to openly reflect on and structurally discuss the topic. Due to the huge interest in the conference and limited seating, a live-streaming of the main sessions of the conference on both conference days is offered. 

The undersigned researchers believe that the world's scholarly literature is a public resource that only achieves its full value when it is freely available to all. 

Academic freedom is on the hit list when radical politicians gain office - as they have done in Europe.

Want to get the best research from your team? Take these six steps to invest in stronger relationships.

Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the planet's temperature.

The Haldane principle, born a century ago, has enabled government scientists to speak truth to power without fear of retribution.

Evidence overwhelmingly shows structural barriers to women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, and suggests that the onus cannot be on women alone to confront the gender bias in our community. Here, I share my experience as a scientist and a woman who has collected data during more than ten years of scientific training about how best to navigate the academic maze of biases and barriers.

FOSTER Plus developed a set of ten free online courses covering key topics of Open Science. Each course takes about one hour to complete.