Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive.

The incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has given into demands that the word 'research' should feature in the research commissioner's job title, making the change at the last possible minute, just before the European Parliament confirmed the new team of commissioners in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.

The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.

Research in the US aims to support rollback of methane rules.

Marc Schiltz, Secretary General and Executive Head of the FNR, has been re-elected President of Science Europe, an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations.

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.

Apple Maps now shows Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - as part of Russia, when viewed there.

The city of Zurich published data sets of attractions, destinations, restaurants and accommodation that can be freely reused under a CC BY-SA license.

A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition.

It's time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.

Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos - or something else entirely.

Publishers rarely make publication fee spending for hybrid journals transparent. Elsevier is a remarkable exception, as the publisher provides open and machine-readable data relative to its central invoicing with funding bodies and fee waivers at the article level.

A swift increase in scientific productivity has outstripped the country's ability to promote rigour and curb academic misconduct; it is time to seize solutions.

Data stewardship encompasses all of the various tasks and responsibilities that relate to research data management throughout the entire research lifecycle. It has been discussed at the 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki by research, industry and policy experts.

We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.

Scientists should take a more intentional, evidence-based approach to mentoring, including tenure and promotion incentives, according to an upcoming report from the US National Academies.

The publisher is committed to financial sustainability. How it achieves it is an open question.

Carnegie Mellon University, a longtime proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionize academic publishing.

Some funders and publishers call it unethical, for others, it's par for the course.

Archivists are the great secret-keepers of history, caught in a negotiation between the past and future. Restrictions and withholding policies serve as their bargaining chip.

Connections prove resilient as researchers circumvent geopolitical obstacles.

This report reveals how global research and discovery is evolving to address poverty, reduce inequality and deal with the effects of climate change via the UN SDGs.

How Flipping a Journal Became About More Than Just Open Access

Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.

If the work is in the public domain, no copyright licenses should be applied and in the case of CC licenses which are designed to only operate where copyright exists, the application of a CC license is ineffective.

For years, researchers weren't exactly sure what to make of these extra loops of genetic material . That's quickly changing.

A growing number of research agencies are assigning money randomly. The Swiss National Science Foundation is the latest funder to experiment with random selection.