A group of junior researchers at Cambridge have established a campaign against the damaging pressure to produce 'sexier' results

Scientific publishing needs to stop treating error-checking as a slightly inconvenient side note and make it a core part of academic research.

Germany's ruling political parties have agreed to plough €5 billion (US$5.4 billion) more into science from 2018 to 2028.

The ERC has announced today the awarding of the Consolidator Grants that go to 329 top researchers across Europe.

When asked why he changed his mind, Bridenstine told The Washington Post, "I heard a lot of experts, and I read a lot. I came to the conclusion myself that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that we've put a lot of it into the atmosphere, and therefore we have contributed to the global warming that we've seen."

Democrats drop some provisions to gain Republican backing and improve chances of final passage of the scientific integrity bill.

Alyson Fox, the Director of Grants at Wellcome, explains why they're changing their policy on transferring grants to ensure research can thrive in the UK, EU and beyond.

The value of open and interoperable metadata of scientific articles is increasingly being recognized, as demonstrated by the work of several organizations, funding agencies, and initiatives.

All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020. EU member states want to achieve optimal reuse of research data. They are also looking into a European visa for foreign start-up founders.

A new paper suggests that positive feedback in funding may be a key mechanism through which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few extremely successful scholars, but also that the origins of emergent distinction in scientists' careers may be of an arbitrary nature.