In the 1960s three African-American women helped put astronauts into orbit. Hidden Figures tells their story, but women in science are still battling inequality.

Practical experience and no student debt make vocational training an enticing career option

The UK’s departure from the EU is an opportunity to rebrand all of Europe as intellectually open, collaborative and dynamic.

How the humanities survive on exploitation.

The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and “alternative facts”. It’s a battle for the future, basic decency, and the people we love.

Research on academics’ writing practices has revealed tensions around the ways in which managerial practices interact with academics’ individual career goals, disciplinary values and sense of scholarly identity.

It started with a tweet, but now it's an international movement. Spurred by concerns about the impact President Donald Trump's administration might have on research, the March for Science is "a call to support and safeguard the scientific community."

In this approach, the goal of a scientist is transformed from convincing an editorial board through a vertical process to convincing peers through an horizontal one.

Virtualitics launches software that immerses viewers in complex models of data

A good book evokes a variety of emotions as you read. Turns out, though, that almost all novels and plays provide one of only six “emotional experiences” from beginning to end—a rags-to-riches exuberance, say, or a rise and fall of hope.

Paul Cairney counsels homework and lots of patience.

The EU should listen to the innovators, knowledge creators and developers when it comes to data mining: the potential benefits are too great to be ignored, writes Helen Frew.