A critical autumn statement will begin to reveal science's place in the UK's post-Brexit identity.

The World Conference on Research Integrity will discuss concrete actions that can be adopted by funding agencies and journals to improve research integrity.

A professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania talks about why faculty diversity is an important — and elusive — goal.

Bruce Macfarlane on the hypocrisy of academics who help to monitor students in ways they themselves never were.

When I was 11 years old, my older brother left our village in Sierra Leone to study physics in the West...

When knowledge is uncertain, experts should avoid pressures to simplify their advice. Render decision-makers accountable for decisions, says Andy Stirling.

Critiques are increasingly challenging the way research is being performed. Recent scandals revealing scientific fraud have made media headlines.

Last week, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced their new philanthropic initiative with the goal of “curing, preventing, and managing all diseases by the end of the century.” This may raise some eyebrows, but this effort—part of the $45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—joins forces with other philanthropists to push the envelope and support audacious ideas, with long-term commitments, to solve some of our greatest challenges.

Science's quality control processes are under question. Scientists should think about changing the rules and extending their peer communities.

Science’s reach has relentlessly expanded to include ever more facets of our world, but the world’s most important scientific honor society has largely ignored that evolution.