A clear correlation between a nation's scientific influence and the links it fosters with foreign researchers exists.

When mounted on an animal’s head, the "miniscope" enables scientists to observe neurons firing, and even the creation of memories.

Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, who led the famed LIGO experiment.

External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.

The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

Save time and protect critical code with 'continuous integration' services.

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.

Three U.S. scientists won the 2017 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves, ripples in space and time foreseen by Albert Einstein a century ago.

Three U.S. scientists share the 2017 award.

While America closes its borders, its northern neighbor is poaching some of the best tech talent in the world.

Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

President Emmanuel Macron’s 2018 draft budget would raise research funds by 6%.

As research and editorial processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks.

An analysis of a popular reputation metric concludes it relies too heavily on social interaction.

Physicist Alexander Sergeyev gets nod from Vladimir Putin.

Biologists are posting unreviewed manuscripts in record numbers. But many are still not sure it's a good idea. A survival guide for scientists.

Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences. Funders are also getting involved.

The Society has published new evidence on international mobility and collaboration, to deepen our understanding of how, where and why researchers move to and from the UK.

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures.

With the aim of maintaining the competitiveness of Swiss research, the SNSF is launching a new career funding scheme at assistant professor level.

The Golden Goose Award honors federally funded, often odd-sounding scientific research that yields significant benefits.

What exactly are the Ig Nobels? And what can we learn from the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Annals of Improbable Results?

The upcoming referendum is unsettling researchers.

Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.

Mountains, lakes, chocolate, fondue and banks? Right? Only partly.

“We do have a major diversity problem in the tech industry,” president’s daughter adds.

Lawmakers criticize how the NIH manages the $500 million program.

Cardiology researcher Mona Nemer, is vice president for research at the University of Ottawa.

The world's first open-source, standards-based annotation capability in an EPUB viewer.