Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.

The American Chemical Society was granted an unprecedented injunction which requires search engines and ISPs to block Sci-Hub.

NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase to seek best practices for developing and managing a data commons.

Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft are protesting a looming injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to or offering services to several "pirate" sites.

In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.

Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.

Patrick Vallance to take over from interim government adviser Chris Whitty from March next year.

ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.

Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."

Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.

Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.

Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.

The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.