The Swiss National Science Foundation is testing a new CV format for researchers applying for project funding in biology and medicine (submission deadline 01 April 2020).

The 2020 election is off to a complicated start. Maybe we can draw some comparative political lessons from the animal kingdom.

The National Association of Science Writers calls on the Trump Administration to allow government experts to speak freely about the outbreak of the coronavirus disease COVID-19.

New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive 'publish or perish' culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.

Last-minute move causes chaos for thousands of researchers

Nasa says major decreases in nitrogen dioxide levels are "at least partly" linked to the outbreak.

A faulty reagent in a test kit and bureaucratic hurdles have slowed testing for the virus that causes COVID-19.

The UK will endeavour to continue in an EU science programme after Brexit.

The Roadmap for Open Science is a part of Canada's 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. It outlines next steps that should be taken to make federal science open to all, while respecting privacy, security, ethical considerations and appropriate intellectual property protection.

Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some journals are now investigating the papers.

The White House's attempt to impose a more disciplined approach to communications about the virus was undermined by President Trump, who complained the news media was overstating the threat.

Open science should be boosted in 2020 as the number of journals with research data policies increases as a result of collective action by publishers, who are being encouraged to adopt a new common framework for journal data policies.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) announced on Wednesday that it is allocating several million Swiss francs to research on coronaviruses.

A move from Germany taught Deb Raj Aryal how to acclimatize to a new research culture.

The incident raises important questions about how institutions handle accusations of harassment that occurred at different universities - particularly in the #MeToo era.

In the context of pressing planetary and socio-economic challenges, sustainable and innovative solutions must be supported by an efficient, transparent and vibrant scientific effort - not only stemming from the scientific community, but from the whole society. Go directly to the questionnaire.

Journals, funders and scholars must work together to create an infrastructure to study peer review.

For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithonian Institution has launched a new open access platform high-resolution images from across its collections for patrons to peruse and download free of charge.

Katherine Johnson, a NASA trailblazer, dies at 101.

A new tool, created by the advocacy organization Center for Open Science, seeks to change editorial practices. Journals are scored based on ten different criteria, including availability of data and policies on preregistration.

Draft of Brown study says findings suggest 'substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages'.

Scientists researching the new coronavirus are bypassing traditional medical journals to publish their findings more quickly online.

A leaked report for the world's major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on an unsustainable trajectory.

Some publishers feared order making federally funded studies free

The new project will run during the first half of 2020. It is supported by Wellcome Trust, led by Information …

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the University of California (UC) announced a two-year agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish in the nonprofit open access publisher’s suite of journals.

Public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing.

OPERAS runs a survey to find out more about social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly communication.

A robot career adviser's personality assessment, based on analysis of tweets.

Researchers are used to being evaluated based on indices like the impact factors of the scientific journals in which they publish papers and their number of citations. A team of 14 natural scientists from nine countries are now rebelling against this practice, arguing that obsessive use of indices is damaging the quality of science.