Oxford researchers are advised that the University’s Research Committee has approved a revised policy for allocating funds from the RCUK Open Access block grant.

Views can depend on purpose of editing, religious beliefs, and scientific understanding

Community-driven network will allow scientists to share ideas and post pre-peer review papers.

Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’.

A paper on conformal algebra has recently caused a stir on social media. Not because of the science, but rather the heartfelt plea in the acknowledgements.

The pipeline of women pursuing mathematics and physics is still dreadfully leaky.

Support for the Google ‘manifesto’ on gender difference recalls the rationale of eugenics.

China's rewards are richest, but many nations now offer incentives for publishing in top journals.

Malware can be encoded into a gene and used to take over a computer program.

Researchers planted a working hacker "exploit" in a physical strand of DNA.

Nearly 1,000 signatories are asking the National Institutes of Health to reinstitute the Grant Support Index proposal.

Researchers planted a working hacker "exploit" in a physical strand of DNA.

Budgetary cuts in funding, pseudoscience and growing religious bigotry have left the scientific community worried.

Consortium seeks country-wide licence for journals at reduced prices.

A list of instutions cancelling their contracts with Elsevier by the end of 2017.

U.S. adults see scientists as intelligent, but not always warm. This is a problem because people's perceptions of scientists' warmth influence their trust in scientific information. Could scientists be improving trust via social media?

A Chinese biologist whose team on Wednesday retracted a high-profile paper on a gene-editing technology has vowed to press ahead with experiments that he hopes will vindicate the potential rival to the CRISPR/Cas9 system.

MilliporeSigma wins a key step in its claims to “knock-in” DNA with the powerful tool.

The case for, and against, redefining "statistical significance."

German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?

A postdoc suing over exclusion from patents offers a lesson for anyone working on potentially lucrative research.

Analysis finds website can fulfill 99% of requests for scholarly papers

More than 400 authors on some 100 papers from a single journal face punishments

The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.

Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.

The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.

The European Commission should give Framework 9 applicants access to the full evaluation reports for their proposals, a Swiss position paper on the programme has said.

As an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor, editors propose an index that measures highly cited papers.

The country wants to use a focus on research to solve its problems and build diplomatic ties in the Middle East.

When the results of clinical trials aren’t made public, the consequences can be dangerous — and potentially deadly.