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.

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

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

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…

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 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.

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.