2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome

The MRC welcomes the inclusion of preprints in publication lists contained within grants and Fellowship applications.

BioRxiv is a pre-print repository for life science researchers who can now easily share their unpublished work with the research community.

Fixing problems in the academic job market by reducing the number of PhDs would homogenise the sector, argues Tom Cutterham.

The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.

Innovation is a huge part of economic growth – and the White House needs to be well-informed on science and tech issues when setting goals and budgets. Here's how presidents get up to speed.

This map shows that across Africa, India, Central America and parts of the Middle East, people are more likely to believe that one of the “bad effects” of science is that it “breaks down ideas of right and wrong”.

Young scientists angry at budget cuts say they have been denied permanent jobs.

Gary McDowell, Misty Heggeness and colleagues present census data showing how the biomedical workforce is fundamentally different to those of past generations – academia should study the trends, and adapt.

Health care policy, space and evolution led the way.

One of the watchwords of politics in 2016 was the epidemic of “fake news” — a catch-all term encompassing propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and hoaxing — impinging on the presidential campaign. But let’s not overlook its spread in the spheres of science and medicine.