Asking the scientific system to fix itself from the bottom up could place an unacceptable burden on junior scientists.

NIH plans to set up a separate fund for early- to mid-career investigators.

With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.

Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.

Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.

Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.

Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.

Containerization technology takes the hassle out of setting up software and can boost the reproducibility of data-driven research.

Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.

Cornerstone of modern science immortalized in concrete.

Proposed cuts include 11% at the National Science Foundation, 18% at the National Institutes of Health and 30% at the Environmental Protection Agency.

China has a lucrative market for fake research reagents. Some scientists are fighting back.

Researchers and manufacturers face possible jail time — or execution — for fraudulent submissions to nation's drug agency.

Rise in copyright breaches prompts industry to discuss ways to allow ‘fair sharing’ of articles.