Biology's big funders announce investment will continue to 2022.

Given the awkwardness of tracking postdocs’ long and irregular work hours and the risk of unpredictable overtime costs, many universities are likely to opt for hiking postdoc salaries to the threshold.

Radical action to erase disparity comes as new figures show lingering gender pay deficit across UK universities

Some admire project's ambition; others say it hasn't justified its aims.

Government can't say how many policy studies it paid for or published, report reveals.

The Guild of European Research Intensive Universities will officially be launched in November

A new report from Sense About Science reveals the scale of politics before evidence.

Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back

Two researchers today launch a game that captures this anarchic spirit. Board-game fans Caezar Al-Jassar, a postdoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and Kuly Heer, a clinical psychologist, have designed the card game Lab Wars to represent the scientific rat race, with extra sabotage.

Scientists make greater use of online workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk, but practice raises concerns

Students viewed by government as welcome immigrants, but questions over capacity and provincial policies remain.

Common compliance situations can get good researchers into trouble, warn James M. DuBois and colleagues.

Agency would receive large raise for 2 years in a row after more than a decade of flat budgets