How long does that prejudice last?

After revelations of harassment and bias in Silicon Valley, a backlash is growing against the women in tech movement.

As the h-index becomes the standard for measuring researcher impact, the risk for gaming the system grows.

The waiting is, indeed, the hardest part, but some academics cope with it better than others.

Early findings from across the geosciences will soon have not one, but two online servers ready to post preprints.

Massive study of Nature journals shows that scientists from developing countries and less prestigious institutes more often prefer reviewers to be blinded to their identity.

Combining expertise from 21 labs in Europe and the US, the International Brain Laboratory will attempt to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Nowhere near enough new drugs are currently in development says a WHO report, which calls for urgent investment and responsible use of existing antibiotics.

UK researchers to build key parts of proposed Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

American Geophysical Union places harassment, bullying, and discrimination on par with falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism.

Letter requests that ResearchGate consider removing content in violation of copyright.

Scientists hit back at a proposal to make it tougher to call findings statistically significant.

Modelled on big physics projects, the International Brain Lab will bring together some of the world’s pre-eminent neuroscientists to probe a single behaviour.

President Donald Trump has nominated Walter Copan, an expert in technology transfer, to be the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He says his top priority for the agency is to implement the Cybersecurity Framework.

More social scientists are using AI intending to solve society’s ills, but they don’t have clear ethical guidelines to prevent them from accidentally harming people.

More than half of those doing a doctorate in Switzerland come from abroad, according to the latest OECD education indicators.

Scientists from around the globe gathered for annual ceremony celebrating research that ‘first makes you laugh, then makes you think’.

Peking University joins the top 20 of the Times Higher Education subject table for the first time

The annual awards recognize the most unusual scientific achievements, such as cats that behave like liquids and tampons that play music.

An initial roster consisting only of men did not go over well at all.

US Lawmakers generally reject Trump’s proposals for deep science cuts.

Workshop on a growing threat to Europe's biodiversity and the role of Citizen Science and Open Data as a model.

Some worry that posting unvetted medical manuscripts could cause problems.

Hypothesis and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are today announcing the selection of the Hypothesis open source annotation framework for the bioRxiv preprint service as their primary annotation mechanism.

Congress has rejected President Trump's plan to cut funds for biomedical research and would instead increase spending by the National Institutes of Health.

Peer review infrastructure will arrive at Crossref in one month.

Once every 4 years editors, publishers, and meta-researchers assemble in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress - an intense researchfest about "enhancing the quality and credibility of science".

Regulations are deterring research that could lead to disease treatments, say scientists.

Deep Argo network of floats expands with $4 million from Paul Allen

Government takes back reserves amassed by the Italian Institute of Technology. “This is the largest investment in competitive funds for basic research of the last 20 years,” says Elena Cattaneo.