As young scientists, we are fooled into working harder and longer to live up to sky-high expectations and encouraged to feel inadequate.

While no one is arguing for funding failure, the challenge is how we define “success.”

Storytelling is easy to implement in your manuscript provided you know how. Think of the six plot elements - character, setting, tension, action, climax, resolution - and the three other story essentials - main theme, chronology, purpose. You’ll soon outline the backbone of your narrative and be ready to write a paper that is concise, compelling, and easy to understand.

Something strange began happening with a U.S. Department of Education loan program known as Parent PLUS, under which parents borrow money from the government to finance their children’s education.

Prime Minister Theresa May spoke at Jodrell Bank. Delivered on 21 May 2018 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered.)

The 2-day eLife Innovation Sprint was aimed at bringing together 'computer people' and 'science people' in order to create novel tools for open science.

Michael Eisen is anything but silent. In his career as a scientist, which has included a slapdash U.S. Senate campaign, blog posts, and nearly 39,000 tweets, he has lobbed grenades at the powers that be.

Sweden is the latest country to hold out on journal subscriptions, while negotiators share tactics to broker new deals with publishers.  Inspired by the results of a stand-off in Germany, negotiators from libraries and university consortia across Europe increasingly declare that if they don’t like what publishers offer, they will refuse to pay for journal access at all.

Some new tools from the Open Access Button.

On the basis of a survey of 7103 active faculty researchers in nine fields, this paper examines the extent to which scientists disclose prepublication results, and when they do, why?

Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses. Those who run labs have a much rosier picture of the dynamics in their research groups than do many staff members working in the trenches.

Some progress has been made in encouraging girls to study A-level physics, but not enough, says report.

Male scientists in the United Kingdom received an extra 40 pence for every pound awarded to women, reveals an analysis of cancer research funding over more than a decade.

It’s not hard to get excited over money that will support imaging of the Earth, or the Atlas of Living Australia. But important as these projects are, there’s a whole set of infrastructure that rarely gets mentioned or noticed: “soft” infrastructure. These are the services, policies or practices that keep academic research working and, now, open.

The £6 billion-a-year funding agency formally went live at the start of April, Monday was the first public airing of its plans.

John Tyndall, a male physicist, is usually cited as the scientists who proved the effect driving global climate change. But the honor should partly go to Eunice Foote.

Universities say they are taking steps to promote BAME staff and address the attainment gap, but progress is far too slow

Visual exploration of projects within the OpenAIRE database.

Catherine Winchester was hired to ferret out errors and establish routines that promote rigorous research.

Neuroscientist Caitlin Vander Weele gives us a crash course on academic Twitter in our new blog post. She highlights the benefits of using social media as a scientist and gives tips on how to optimize the experience.

The AAAS Federal R&D Budget Dashboard is an interactive tool for exploring long-term federal funding trends within the context of the broader budget.

Men appear to be favored throughout the selection process.

The Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II, worked out of three purpose-built cities in Tennessee, New Mexico, and Washington state. A new exhibition considers their design and legacy.

Nasa, ESA, and Brazil’s inpe make most or all of their environmental satellite data available for free.

This post introduces the citation distribution index, an impact indicator developed by Science-Metrix to address many of the limitations of the average measures used in bibliometrics.

Nobel-prize data suggest the productivity of American science has fallen.

Twenty years on, Dave Reay speaks out about the depression that almost sunk his Ph.D., and the lifelines that saved him.

Over the past few years, Nature has published editorials extolling the virtues of replication, concluding in one that “We welcome, and will be glad to help disseminate, results that explore the validity of key publications, including our own.” Mante Nieuwland, of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and colleagues were encouraged by that message and submitted one such replication attempt to Nature Neuroscience. In a three-part guest post, Nieuwland will describe what happened when they did and discusses whether reality lives up to the rhetoric. 

Complex algorithms will soon help clinicians make incredibly accurate determinations about our health from large amounts of information, premised on largely unexplainable correlations in that data.

Wikidata offers a low-barrier, high-result method of making data not only visible but reusable.