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The collapse of Italy's coalition government has left researchers vulnerable. The president should use his moral authority with party leaders to make sure that promises of increased funding are kept.
Science PhD programmes cater almost exclusively to students bound for academia, but they don't have to.
Co-chairs of the implementation task force of the international research-funder consortium cOAlition S clarify their position with regard to financially supporting the important transition to full open access after 2024.
In a nationwide competition for elite research positions, committees that hold strong implicit gender biases and doubt that women face external barriers to their success are observed to promote fewer women.
Journals and editorial boards must accept their responsibility to guide positive reviewer behaviour and constructive feedback.
Researchers say that Irina Artemieva's dismissal from the University of Copenhagen runs counter to international academic standards.
If the country's main science-funding agency doesn't get more cash soon, young researchers will stop getting paid.
The role of climate change (CC) contrarians is neglected in climate change communication studies. Here the authors used a data-driven approach to identify CC contrarians and CC scientists and found that CC scientists have much higher citation impact than those for contrarians but lower media visibility.
Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters - but researchers warn against policing self-citation.
Changes to the United States' landmark conservation law make it easier to strip threatened species of the strongest protections.
Long after most chemists had given up trying, a team of researchers has synthesized the first ring-shaped molecule of pure carbon — a circle of 18 atoms.
Scientists can improve how they inform politicians and other policymakers on how to make decisions.
Teach people to think critically about claims and comparisons - they will make better decisions.
Scholars globally are feeling the heat from politicians. They should take inspiration from scientists in the 1950s who raised the alarm over nuclear weapons.
The report on global land use and agriculture from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
Researchers need guidance on how to handle published work whose ethics have been questioned.
As scientists from myriad fields rush to perform algorithmic analyses, Google's Patrick Riley calls for clear standards in research and reporting.
The next UK prime minister is a controversial character - and his stance on Brexit concerns researchers.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people.
The research community needs to find ways to reward study design and methodology as much as the final result. A publishing format called Registered Reports offers a means of addressing this challenge.
Six limiting maxims PhD students should avoid.
We scientists must stand up for openness and fairness. Discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity, turning down a collaboration or refusing a visa for a conference on the grounds of nationality, or simply making someone feel unwelcome because they are an immigrant - these are all morally objectionable and practically counterproductive. Such behaviour must cease.
Animal-rights group's campaign to end forced-swim tests comes amid debate over whether method is overused.
A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast quantities of science for computer analysis - but is it legal?
It was tough for Lia Paola Zambetti to leave the bench after dreaming for more than a decade of becoming a scientist, and reaching her goal. But now she enjoys her work's broader impact.
The switch to double-blind peer review will affect roughly 650 scientists working on projects worth an estimated US$55 million.
Researchers describe how a government crackdown on foreign influence is affecting them following a statement of support from their university.
Global effort to combat research misconduct gathers pace.
Some star psychologists don't disclose in research papers the large sums they earn for talking about their work. Is that a concern?
Institutions cannot boast of a respectful environment for researchers and trainees if they flout those values to cut legal liability, says Steven Piantadosi.
