President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to "ensure" that the United States has the "cleanest air" and the "cleanest water," but his administration's efforts to slash environmental regulations have been extensive.

New ACM Open Publishing Model Promises to Accelerate ACM's Transition to Full Open Access  New York, NY, January 23, 2020-ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its largest institutional customers, including the University of California (UC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Iowa State University (ISU). The agreements, which run for three-year terms beginning January 1, 2020, cover both access to and open access publication in ACM's journals, proceedings and magazines for these universities, and represent the first transformative open access agreements for ACM.  "This joint agreement shows …

The European Open Science Cloud, an enormous repository of research results that is due to go live later this year, will add new value to vast stores of unused data, Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president pledged on Wednesday.

One genetic analysis suggests reptilian reservoir - but researchers doubt that the coronavirus could have originated in animals other than birds or mammals.

Hundreds of scientists across the federal government have been forced out, sidelined or muted since President Trump took office.

Researchers are racing to find out more about the epidemiology and genetic sequence of the coronavirus spreading in Asia and beyond.

We're updating our list of free and low-cost article access programs, including patient/caregiver access. 

Mauro Ferrari joins EU organisation at a delicate moment but says his focus is on identifying 'breakthrough people'.

Mr. Greenwald is accused of being part of a "criminal investigation" that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials.

What chief academic officers think about the academic health of their institutions, the role of tenure, general education and much more.

Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.

Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes.

Up to £200,000 per society available for flagging important biomedical research outputs.

A man in Washington State is infected with a new respiratory virus. Federal officials plan to expand screenings for the infection at major airports.

China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.

Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.

McGill professor resigns over university's repeated votes to keep investing in fossil fuels.

The WHO's annnouncement came as China confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, as well as a confirmed incident involving human-to-human spread.

Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.

Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression.

Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.

Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.

This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.

Twin disasters marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth's great extinctions.

We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.

PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.

The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.

A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment

Stay organized to help spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves!