A new online tool measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them.

A model of the way opinions spread reveals how propagandists use the scientific process against itself to secretly influence policy makers.

Preliminary coalition agreement pledges increase in research funding to 3.5% of GDP.

Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka suggested at a press conference that Kyoto University in Japan could ask him to resign over fraud committed by one of his center’s scientists.

The US biomedical research agency NIH says it is dedicating $190 million over the next six years to researchers conducting gene-editing experiments, such as those with the powerful CRISPR technique.

Research budget could rise to 3.5% of gross domestic product if agreement struck during coalition talks holds.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is launching a new company under the Alphabet umbrella. It's called Chronicle, and the new company wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity.

UK announces plans for the ethical oversight of AI as it is increasingly used to drive cars, diagnose patients and even to help determine prison sentences.

A small group of fewer than 30 universities are having a bigger impact on the inventions driving global economic growth than the world’s major industrialised nations.

Poorer performance found to be based on less positive evaluation of female principal investigators, not differences in the quality of science

US male PhD holders earn more than female counterparts across nearly every scientific field.

Budget cuts and layoffs threaten the nation's health and safety

Steven Chu, former secretary of energy, professor of physics at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate, has been chosen as the president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Switzerland appears to have three key factors for success in getting a surprisingly high proportion of its researchers’ articles cited in the scientific literature: it’s a small country, it’s research investment is large compared to other countries, and importantly, its hosting of the Large Hadron Collider is a drawcard for collaborative research.

Replication is not enough. Marcus R. Munafò and George Davey Smith state the case for triangulation.

The nearly 60,000-member American Geophysical Union took the bold step of revising its ethics policy to treat harassment, discrimination and bullying as scientific misconduct, with the same types of penalties for offenders. Other scientific organizations have not adopted that standard.

It’s not true that efforts to reform research may “end up destroying new ideas before they are fully explored.” In defense of the replication movement.

Women are significantly under-represented as last authors on high-quality research papers, according to a recent analysis.

But female scientists suffer when their research proposals are judged primarily on the strength of their CVs.

Computer scientist Antoine Petit, 57, is the new head of Europe's largest research organization. On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron named Petit as president of CNRS, France's national research agency headquartered in Paris.

Researchers say universities with generous policies employ twice the number of women professors.

Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. PLOS Biology is now formalizing a policy whereby manuscripts that confirm or extend a recently published study are eligible for consideration.

New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible.