Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Average spending has increased by 19 per cent in four years, Freedom of Information requests reveal.

The EPO announced the winners of the European Inventor Award 2018 at a ceremony today in Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, attended by some 600 guests from the areas of politics, business, intellectual property, science and academia.

When asked why he changed his mind, Bridenstine told The Washington Post, "I heard a lot of experts, and I read a lot. I came to the conclusion myself that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that we've put a lot of it into the atmosphere, and therefore we have contributed to the global warming that we've seen."

Cancer biologist Inder Verma quit as board considered investigation’s findings.

Pedro Duque, who has been on two space missions, is the best-known face in a Cabinet lineup with more women than men.

As of May 2018, CORE has aggregated over 131 million article metadata records, 93 million abstracts, 11 million hosted and validated full texts and over 78 million direct links to research papers hosted on other websites.

European Commission’s next seven-year science-funding scheme - its biggest ever - will allow any country to join for a price.  The proposal confirms that the programme will be open to all countries for the first time, which will allow the UK to take part after Brexit.

The balance of the EUR94.1 billion will go to fund fundamental science and innovation. The total for Horizon Europe represents about 10 percent of government research funding across the EU.

MIT tops the list for a record seventh consecutive year. ETH Zurich ranks seventh - its best ranking ever.  EPFL also in top 25.

The new exposure of peer review information through its public API provides opportunities for discoverability, analysis, and integration of tools.

Newly released guidelines open the door wider for foreign researchers, allowing them to lead public research projects.

Leading legislator Christian Ehler criticizes planning and budget for moonshot missions proposed by Commission - an idea not yet "changing the world".

Being inclusive gives research groups a competitive edge. It also happens to be the right thing to do.

The United Kingdom wants a part in European science programmes after Brexit, but the European Union could put a high price on it.

Independent board will review agency decisions to repeal or change climate regulations and rules on the use of non-public data.

Award goes to biochemists Virginijus Siksnys, whose lab independently developed the gene-editing tool, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.

Preprints are one of the fastest growing types of content in Crossref.  The growth may well be approximately 30% for the past 2 years (compared to article growth of 2-3% for the same period).

Swedish researchers can now publish their articles in Frontiers’ Open Access journals through a simplified process that covers publishing fees, thanks to a national agreement announced today between Frontiers and the National Library of Sweden.

On 7 June, the European Commission will lay out detailed plans for one of the biggest single research programs on the planet. Called Horizon Europe, the program could be worth EUR97.6 billion between 2021 and 2027, up from about EUR77 billion for the current 7-year program, Horizon 2020. 

The young membership, frequency of elections and relaxed networks in science societies may provide vital positive influence for female promotion in STEM.

A new service called "Journals Mafia" appears to act as an intermediary between authors and journals - accepting articles, formatting and fixing the language, and submitting it to the journal. Since the authors pay to publish the articles, the company shares the profits with journals that publish the paper.

In 1942, the US Book Republication Program permitted American publishers to reprint "exact reproductions" of Germany's scientific texts without payment; seventy-five years later, the fate of this scientific knowledge forms the basis of a "natural experiment" analysed by Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser.

New national guidelines spell out punishment for plagiarism, fabrication of data and research conclusions, ghostwriting and peer review manipulation.

The European Open Science Cloud, which will support EU science in its global leading role by creating a trusted environment for hosting and processing research data.

Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings.

The League of European Research Universities has published a roadmap to help universities around the world implement open-science practices.

Wellcome new Open Research Fund supports innovative approaches that enable data, code or other research outputs to be discovered, accessed and reused.

In a paper setting out its negotiating terms, the government calls for a far reaching-science and innovation pact and says it will respect the remit of the European Court of Justice.

In June 2017, PSI was made aware of allegations that members of its staff had submitted an article containing aspects of scientific misconduct to a scientific journal.  A preliminary review by experts showed that the allegations raised were solid.