When someone has to retract a paper for misconduct, what are the odds they will do it again? And how can we use that information to stop repeat offenders?

Big technology companies seem to be waging a war on humankind’s long-standing intellectual tradition, according to author Franklin Foer, who shows us how to fight back.

"If you [only] have products created by white guys in their 20s, you’re gonna miss the mark."

Preparing early career scientists for a career that connects science and society.

Understanding the provenance of information used by Wikipedians, also allows us to lift a veil on its gaps - the types of sources, languages, and perspectives - that are not represented, which in turn can inform community efforts to improve coverage in underserved content areas.

After leaving the lab, these three scientists decided they wanted to go back and made it happen.

Firsthand account about the experience of racism in scholarly publishing, showing we have "a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do" to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.

Elsevier, a major scientific publisher, has a 36 percent profit margin - bigger than Apple, Amazon, and Google. And it's just one of many. But Sci-Hub could change all that by releasing every article for free.

It helps to choose the right scholarly meeting and to swallow your discomfort with schmoozing.

12 steps, relevant to both first-time peer reviewers and those keen to brush up on their skills.

The difference between full counting and fractional counting of publiations should inform our interpretation of the headlines.

Scholars love to hate the journal impact factor, but how flawed is it?

A group of fourteen authors came together in February 2018 at the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) in Hannover to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training.

Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy.

The No Women No Panel Campaign initiated by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been supported and reiterated by several of her colleagues from the European Commission. She committed to ensuring at least one other woman is part of panels she is invited to speak at.

The plan for the EU’s next research Framework programme will be presented at the end of May, according to the European Commission’s incoming R&D chief Jean-Eric Paquet.

A report from a short project using natural language processing and machine learning on open-access content to understand what lies beneath a citation.

It seems that CRISPR technology may indeed be all that it promises.

Making scientific publications free to read is a big change in a world dominated by subscription journals. Why is it so important that science publications become open access?

With permanent academic jobs scarce, the government wants industry to utilize young talent. 

Looking at of the gender gap in 50 years of publications in astronomy and astrophysics.

5 technologies under development at the IBM Research labs.

Science-related Facebook pages draw millions of followers but 'news you can use' posts or ads outnumber ones about scientific discoveries.

How chance determines h-index’s outcome.

An experimental tool for self-publishing on the peer-to-peer web

When it comes to impact assessment, there are things that are easy to measure, and then there are things that we care about. On the divide through the examples of two recent online initiatives from the Canadian federal government.

To beat the stiff competition, highlight your skills in collaboration, teamwork and meeting deadlines.

Amid the sea of male faces -- 37 of them -- was a lone woman, her face partially obscured. She was listed as "not identified."

But female LGBQ students are more likely than their heterosexual peers to stay in STEM, a survey of college seniors across the United States reveals.

Accenture study shows 62% of teenage girls regret not studying science, technology, engineering and maths subjects for longer.