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It's time to embrace change. Today Europe PubMed Central (PMC) proudly unveils a new website, packed with useful features, including a better search and reading experience, as well as better access to data.

OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.

Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.

Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun's mysteries

The company's AWS unit will allow customers to tap quantum machines from three startups.

An EPFL Bachelor's student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years.

Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.

Beijing's pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.

Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful - but that's where the similarities end.

Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions - a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.

Since India lost contact with the spacecraft in September, the precise location of its crash has been a mystery.

The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.

CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…

Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive.

This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.

Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.

A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition.

The city of Zurich published data sets of attractions, destinations, restaurants and accommodation that can be freely reused under a CC BY-SA license.

Apple Maps now shows Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - as part of Russia, when viewed there.

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.

Marc Schiltz, Secretary General and Executive Head of the FNR, has been re-elected President of Science Europe, an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations.

Research in the US aims to support rollback of methane rules.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.

Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.

The incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has given into demands that the word 'research' should feature in the research commissioner's job title, making the change at the last possible minute, just before the European Parliament confirmed the new team of commissioners in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos - or something else entirely.

It's time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.

We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.