Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.

Promises to raise research spending and take action on climate change overshadowed by scientists' fears about leaving the European Union.

An image of three perpetually bouncing droplets, whose behaviour embodies a key theory in quantum physics, has won first place in the Royal Society Publishing photography competition. The award celebrates science and its beauty as portrayed through photography

Little is known about the long-term effects of early-career setback. Here, the authors compare junior scientists who were awarded a NIH grant to those with similar track records, who were not, and find that individuals with the early setback systematically performed better in the longer term.

Grant and funding withdrawals should be considered in cases of sexual harrassment, say researchers.

ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal. 

In memory of Margarita Salas, the biochemist whose discoveries led to faster, more-accurate DNA testing.

UK health service will not gain commercial benefit from future Amazon products using its data

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

A physicist has become embroiled in a sexism row with Wikipedia after profiles she created for female scientists were removed because they were "not notable enough".

He Jiankui's manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.

Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.

Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive 'emphasis on research performance'.

Proportions of female students and those from under-represented ethnic groups are rising, yet parity is a way off.

Forty-three Chinese universities should be considered "very high" or "high" risk collaborators because of their involvement in research for military and defence purposes, according to an Australian think tank.

More than 800 PLOS articles have already been published with accompanying peer review history, transforming options for transparency in the assessment process.

We would like to inform you that the Open Call is launched again in a new form and slightly modified topics.

The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle. 

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

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

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

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.

What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.

Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate

Evaluation reforms will go round in circles without conceptual clarity, warns Anna Hatch.

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

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

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

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