The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.

Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.

Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive.

This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.

Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos - or something else entirely.

It's time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.

A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition.

The city of Zurich published data sets of attractions, destinations, restaurants and accommodation that can be freely reused under a CC BY-SA license.

Apple Maps now shows Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - as part of Russia, when viewed there.

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.

Marc Schiltz, Secretary General and Executive Head of the FNR, has been re-elected President of Science Europe, an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations.

Research in the US aims to support rollback of methane rules.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.

Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.

The incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has given into demands that the word 'research' should feature in the research commissioner's job title, making the change at the last possible minute, just before the European Parliament confirmed the new team of commissioners in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Publishers rarely make publication fee spending for hybrid journals transparent. Elsevier is a remarkable exception, as the publisher provides open and machine-readable data relative to its central invoicing with funding bodies and fee waivers at the article level.

We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.

A swift increase in scientific productivity has outstripped the country's ability to promote rigour and curb academic misconduct; it is time to seize solutions.

Data stewardship encompasses all of the various tasks and responsibilities that relate to research data management throughout the entire research lifecycle. It has been discussed at the 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki by research, industry and policy experts.