ETH Zurich in Switzerland launched an investigation into allegations that a leading professor mistreated graduate students for more than a decade.

Switzerland's unique geography and economy put it at the centre of the world when it comes to scientific collaboration.

The Commission made the Declaration of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) available to all scientific stakeholders, for their endorsement and commitments to the realisation by 2020.

One of the biggest and best studies of alcohol's effects on health is underway. But funding from the alcohol industry is already undercutting its results.

House Republican says cap on indirect costs would be unreasonable and ultimately destructive.

Reviewing preprints provides feedback to the authors and helps involve more scientists in peer review.

The number of EU students applying to UK undergraduate courses with an October deadline has risen in 2017.

​Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has selected Ottawa heart researcher Mona Nemer to be the country's top scientist. Canada has been without a national science adviser since 2008.

ADC Therapeutics, a Swiss start-up that specialises in cutting-edge cancer drugs, has raised almost CHF200 million ($200 million) in private funds.

Top White House science job stays empty more than nine months after president took office.

Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.

Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs.

A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.

Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher in disaster medicine, has 20 days to appeal against his death sentence.

Organizers of a Monday conference on the Narragansett Bay were told three E.P.A. scientists would not be allowed to present their work.

As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.

Federal spending on science has dropped by half in 5 years.

A movement to make the fruits of research available without charge has helped students and faculty members gain access to an increasing number of academic articles.

Patreon works differently to most other crowdfunding services. On Patreon, you donate a small amount regularly.

Teaching scientists foundational computing skills.

Repurposing continuous integration tools for scientific analyses takes the headache out of reproducible research.

New Senate bill would add public members to all funding panels and reexamine some National Science Foundation proposals.

US-registered Central European University faces another year of uncertainty over whether it can continue to operate in Hungary.

SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American, is preparing a 2018 stock market listing valuing the company at up to 4 billion euros.

Agency staff wanted initiative on firearms violence to continue.

Concern mounts over budget cuts and other changes that undermine basic science.

A European Commission working group recommends Horizon 2020 evaluation process to account for gender issues.

Controversial policy means mainstream media are starting to rival rigorous academic publications in some universities in China.

Semantic Scholar search tool expands to include biomedical science literature.

Concern mounts over budget cuts and other changes that undermine basic science in Japan.