A physics professor explains why male scientists devalue research that shows gender bias in the field.

New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.

A historian recounts the National Institutes of Health's 1960s pilot test of exchanging unreviewed manuscripts, and how publishers killed it.

New study casts doubts on whether more information about science can really change someone's mind.

The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.

If we can get our minds around Premier League statistics, we can handle experimental science, writes physics professor Tom McLeish

Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.

Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.

The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.

What it's like to work the night shift in a science lab

Two years ago this month, news of the replication crisis reached the front page of the New York Times.

Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons.

Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’

A new study analyzes how economists talk about each other in an online forum, and finds unmistakable signs of hostility toward women.

Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.

The UK government’s proposals on science in the Brexit negotiations will be set out in a paper to be released by the end of September.

You can begin to trace the influence of your ideas with other researchers by tracking not only who cited you but who also cited the authors who were citing you.

FDA says new security policy could bar hiring of about 50 foreign nationals per year

Effort backed by the state’s flagship universities comes as US President Donald Trump shrugs off global warming.

Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.

The Center for Open Science launches Thesis Commons, a free, cloud-based, open-source platform for the submission, dissemination, and discovery of graduate and undergraduate theses and dissertations from any discipline.

In the quest to make scientific publications free to read and free to publish, the million-dollar question is: how can it be sustainable?

How your doctor was bought.

Ismail Serageldin, founding director of the Library of Alexandria, has appealed a 3.5-year prison term

New 2017 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).

Cathleen S. Morawetz, the first female mathematician to receive the National Medal of Science, died Aug. 8 at 94.

A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected.

Funding trouble at flagship research centre reflects a broader malaise in the country’s scientific priorities that must be addressed.

Emojis, smartphone technologies and revamped guidelines would boost transparency at scientific meetings, say Shai D. Silberberg and colleagues.

Institutions in Argentina and Brazil are struggling to maintain their funding and talent.