A Vanderbilt faculty member, considered a hero to many women in science, finds her once promising tenure bid has stalled.

Shifting attitudes of researchers towards open access mandates.

Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal with a major journal publisher, Wiley, that is drawing close scrutiny from advocates of open access to scientific papers.

The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.

My recent reporting has highlighted why racial exclusion in "the queen of the sciences'' may matter most of all.

Mozilla has opened applications for Open Science Mini-Grants. The latest round of grants seeks projects that address open practices in the field of biomedicine.

The White House is working to assemble a panel to assess whether climate change poses a national security threat, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, a conclusion that federal intelligence agencies have affirmed several times since President Trump took office.

Blending the traditional manuscript with live code, data and interactive figures, eLife showcases a new way for researchers to tell their full story.

A two-year study by the University on the status of women and underrepresented minority faculty at Columbia has resulted in a set of proposals on ways to close salary gaps, spur academic advancement and improve the overall work environment.

Rare effort to track wages reveals inconsistencies and a gender pay gap.

Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.

Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.

Researchers say the policy could intensify existing issues with research quality and misconduct.

With the membership of NSTC, the main public research funding body in the Republic of Zambia, cOAlition S now has members in Europe, North America, and Africa, and has received further support in the Middle East and Asia, with particular support by China.

A new study suggests that making reviewers' reports freely readable doesn't compromise the peer-review process.

Collaborating on the development of Texture brings eLife a step closer to its open-source, end-to-end publisher workflow.

NISO and NFAIS announced a planned merger yesterday, designed to better serve their members during a time of rapid change.

A planned $35-million upgrade could enable LIGO to spot one black-hole merger per day by the mid-2020s.

The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse

Kelvin Droegemeier starts work two years into an administration facing many challenges.

This is the first empirical study of major academic journals’ willingness to publish a cohort of comparable and objective correction letters on misreported high-impact studies.

According to a study of 628 awards given over five decades, men still win the most prestigious scientific prizes.

A new study shows that little teams are more likely to take their research in radically new directions.

Following these guiding principles for sharing data can help researchers get ahead.

On the five-year anniversary of an uprising that propelled Ukraine away from Russia and towards Europe, scientists say things are improving too slowly.

February 11th was International Women and Girls in Science Day, but despite the best efforts of many parents, teachers, and policymakers over the last two decades the numbers are still dismal.

We are inspired that our children, spurred on by the noble actions of Greta Thunberg and other striking students, are making their voices heard, say 224 academics

On 11 February, the United Nations, partners worldwide, women and girls will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.