A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

Academics are thronging to university counselling rooms to seek help for mental health problems and stress, a report suggests.

In the aftermath of the European elections, the calculators are starting to come out in labs and universities around Europe that depend on the EU for research funding: Will it mean more or less money for science and technology? The answer so far: fuzzy maths.

MCAA and Eurodoc call on research institutions, funding bodies and governments to ensure sustainable researcher careers in a joint declaration.

In a significant escalation, policymakers are seeking to undermine or discard research showing the most dire risks of inaction on climate change.

Gene therapy achieves a milestone. Novartis will sell the world’s most expensive drug, a treatment called Zolgensma to treat spinal muscular atrophy.

Having early and rapid access to research findings accelerates the pace of science and is paramount for advancing discovery. Springer Nature considers itself ideally placed to help facilitate this and making great research available as quickly as possible to the research community. 

Do Swiss researchers share their data with other researchers and with the public? And if not, why? Which data repositories and other channels do they use for data sharing? A large-scale survey by the SNSF and swissuniversities offers some answers.

The hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't - and won't - deliver the climate benefit they promise.

ELife announces their roadmap towards an open, scalable infrastructure for the publication of computationally reproducible articles.

The surveys are rife with bias, and educational and legal considerations are upping the pressure to change them and maybe even eliminate them.

Despite repeatedly expressing public support for children’s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants’ effects on child development.

From now, house style guide recommends terms such as 'climate crisis' and 'global heating'.

Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?

The new Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) journal is attempting to fight publication bias.

Six candidate research proposals lost in limbo.

An infographic showing the prevalence of mental health problems in PhD students. It also gives information on how one can overcome these problems.

Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global south (AmeliCA) is pleased to be part of this initiative that furthers an open, scalable, long-lasting scientific infrastructure that seeks to spread its benefits worldwide.

The two-page brochure describes the impact of Electronic Information for Libraries' (EIFL) open science training at universities and research institutes in Africa and Europe.  

Some publishers are considering an approach they hope will both comply with "Plan S" and maintain their subscription income: allowing authors to post manuscripts in public archives as soon as their papers are published.

The 2019 edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking introduces indicators of open access publishing and gender diversity. 

This article presents a new initiative from the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden (CWTS), to assess gender inequality in research publication across different institutions internationally and drive further change in the sector.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will soon invite applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. Applicants can request funding between $50k and $250k for one year. 

Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.

State and federal government pledge €17 billion in extra funds through 2030.

New research says early failure in the sciences may be beneficial in the long run.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report points to more than 2,500 wars and other conflicts over fossil fuels, water, food and land to show how important nature is.

Some of the most successful free-to-publish Open Access endeavors have been emerging from arts and humanities in response to the particular needs of the humanities scholars concerning publishing formats, academic evaluation, and funding availability.