The Council of the EU looks set to ask the European Research Council to consider setting up a new category of grants to help student researchers establish their careers.

Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.

The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.

As part of its update of EU copyright rules, the European Commission today proposed a copyright exception that would permit researchers to analyse on a large scale scientific data to which they have lawful access.

A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture

Ruth Hubbard, 92, of Cambridge, who died Sept. 1, first female biology professor to be awarded tenure at Harvard University, and also was an anti-war activist, a cautionary voice about privacy and gene research, and a prominent feminist critic of discrimination women face in sciences.

Proposed law would ban the practice

The 20-page report has an explicit message: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the position of the president’s science adviser should be retained.

Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.

A group of research funders, sector bodies and infrastructure experts are working together in partnership to promote the responsible use of research metrics. 

Critics say the big new building will ruin the city's historic skyline

Researchers will have to publicly report the results of many more clinical trials under new government rules announced Friday.

Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars.

The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.

NIH wants to expand the sharing of summary data from clinical trials, such as test results being reviewed here at NIH’s clinical center.

But UK students at universities abroad will lose out from the falling pound