Irina Dumitrescu's tips for 'upward toxicity' was THE's most-read article of 2019. But it doesn't have to be this way, says John Tregoning

Articles in high-impact journals are by definition more highly cited on average. But are they cited more often because the articles are somehow "better"? Or are they cited more often simply because they appeared in a high-impact journal?

The 2010s have seen breakthroughs in frontiers from gene editing to gravitational waves. The coming one must focus on climate change.

Balancing Dominic Cummings' agenda with industrial strategy approach, and deciding on geographical focus for increased investment, seen as key challenges

An analysis of submissions to two top journals showed that scientists in the U.S. were highly likely to be working during holidays.

World's second-biggest publisher says proposals to accelerate switch to open access would not be sustainable for many titles

Ten people who mattered in science in 2019 according to nature.

NIH gets 7%, NSF only 2.5%, as Congress ignores Trump's proposed cuts.

The findings mark a step forward in using space technology to detect leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas sites worldwide.

How will climate change shape the Earth's surface? What are the long-term health effects of food additives? How can online tools change political advocacy and what does this mean for democracy? These are just some of the questions that researchers from around Europe have proposed to explore, and will now be able to, thanks to newly-awarded EU funding.

Economic and Social Research Council may provide four years of PhD funding amid concerns over stress caused by three-year model

Agreement allows yearlong delay before papers become free to read.

Exhausted delegates postponed tricky issues. The weak rules on a market based mechanism, promoted by Brazil and Australia, that would have undermined efforts to reduce emissions have been shelved and the fight can continue next year at COP26 in Glasgow.

American pigs are raised on a liberal diet of antibiotics, fueling the rise of resistant germs. Danish pork producers are proving there's a better way.

Academics can excel in many areas, but thus far they have primarily been assessed based on research achievements. From now on, the public knowledge institutions and research funders want to consider academics' knowledge and expertise more broadly in determining career policy and grant requirements.

It's called Digid8 and will try to use your genes to make sure you never meet the wrong person.

We explore the components that can support reproducibility by making research more easily verifiable: data, code, and protocols.

International codes of conduct are important, but grass-roots efforts are the key to embedding research integrity.

But can we protect them?

A study in mice suggests serotonin release underlies the drug's prosocial effects while dopamine mediates the rewarding properties that drive its potential for abuse.

He Jiankui's original research, published for the first time, could have failed, scientists say.

Around 200 environmental campaigners are barred from climate talks after Greta Thunberg speaks.

When it comes to race, "It's always like 'O.K., but now we're going to start the lesson on peas,''' a biology teacher said. A study will test a new approach.

Institutions must act together to reform research culture.

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.