Scholars and political leaders describe increasing concerns about Chinese government influence over teaching and research in the U.S. and Australia.

Elsevier is allowing researchers in Germany to access its paywalled journals without a contract until a national agreement is hammered out.

The results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by Research!America showed that 67% of respondents had a positive image of science and indeed thought that public policy should be based on the best science available.

Strategy for gender balance and equal opportunities for women and men at the ETH Domain.

The pre-print database for scientists to test the peer-review waters was set up in 1991 as a relatively simple electronic bulletin board on a single computer. Twenty-six years later, the site arXiv.org has surpassed a full billion downloads of papers and receives more than 10 million submissions each month.

They’re not hiding behind language - they’re acting in plain sight.

The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.

But final deal on a 2018 budget could bring substantial spending increases.

Cosmic convergence confirmed astrophysical models, revealed origins of heavy elements -- and, yes, created gravitational waves.

Some 300 scientists and environmental protection specialists have departed the agency during the Trump administration.

The drop in the UK’s share of EU funding for research and innovation has been steepest in the more collaborative parts of the Framework programme.

It’s not because they turn down talks more often, or because there aren’t enough women to invite.

Melbourne researchers warn government: don't publish data down to the individual, ever.

Science funding in Brazil appears frozen at 2017 amounts - its lowest level in 10 years, despite promises of a 40% increase.

Leaked emails reveal that the foundation is actively making offers of grants to officials at the WHO as well as people in India and abroad without explicitly revealing its single source of funding – Philip Morris International.

Tuition tax out, but orphan drug credit reduced.

The number of women in scientific research continues to lag behind the number of men, even though women make up half the nation's workforce. The question is, What difference does it make?

Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology

The Hanson Robotics headline maker is now pushing for women's rights in a country that granted her more rights than it grants most human females.

The future of automated scientific writing is upon us—and that's a good thing.

Philip Campbell to continue at publisher Springer Nature.

Lack of international representation on scientific journals' editorial boards has persisted since 1985.

Current trends say generating new bitcoins will use all the power in the world by 2020.

AAAS and APS presidents seek justice for physician and scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, who faces death sentence, in letter to Iran President Rouhani.

A growing movement seeks to make the tools of science available to everyone (including you).

Agency will no longer set a 10-year cutoff for eligibility.

Agency analysts are told to avoid these 7 banned words and phrases in budget documents.

Senate and House Republican leaders have agreed to abandon many of the controversial proposals that higher education leaders and students had rallied to thwart.

China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do - your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.

Full membership is restored, but the Swiss are still counting the cost of being outside the EU research fold.