Cornerstone of modern science immortalized in concrete.

Republicans take aim at NSF but miss the mark

Report urges academy to ‘embrace’ opportunities for wider research dissemination

Agency officials say flexibility and protecting the core were the keys.

A documentary in which the disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield alleges that a link between vaccines and autism has been covered up by the US government is to be shown at the Cannes film festival.

Some fields will have a tougher time than others finding alternative sources.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised for health reforms in his own country, takes the helm at a critical time.

The double-digit percentage cuts President Donald Trump is proposing in his fiscal 2018 budget plan for science and technology programs would “devastate America’s science and technology enterprise” and weaken the nation’s economic growth.

Proposed cuts include 11% at the National Science Foundation, 18% at the National Institutes of Health and 30% at the Environmental Protection Agency.

John Wiley and Sons has announced a partnership with Overleaf, a cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool.

A new report jointly commissioned from the Technopolis Group by the UK’s four national academies reveals exactly where EU funding goes, what kind of activities it supports and what other investment it attracts.

It’s another blow to an industry that has been hammered in the U.S. and Europe, leaving a huge opportunity for China to emerge as a global leader in nuclear technology.

They act as a “social vaccine” that protects female students against negative stereotypes and gives them a sense of belonging.

The Research Council of Norway is giving universities and university colleges a six-month deadline to upload articles stemming from Council-funded projects to open repositories.

Despite criticism of an earlier draft of the budget proposal, the new proposal indicates the White House is determined to stay its course.

The universities in the Netherlands and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have recently concluded a three-year agreement guaranteeing 100% open access to academic journals.

Technology, innovation and digitalisation must be seen as sources of income and not as costs to a business.

An Imperial-led study will focus on how the world can meet climate change targets by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Globe-trotting scientists are surprisingly hard to track, but data from ORCID provide a window into their movements.

ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.

Molecular geneticist and university administrator Frédérique Vidal is France’s new minister for higher education, research, and innovation.

Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.

NIH director avoids criticism of his political bosses, touts value of NIH-funded research.

Some of the world’s largest research funders and NGOs today agreed to adopt the WHO's strong standards on clinical trial transparency.

A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.

Government may delay decision pending court decisions.

China has a lucrative market for fake research reagents. Some scientists are fighting back.

New technologies could deliver the benefits of nature without the hassle of life

We describe the mathematical foundations and structure of TrueReview, an open-source tool we propose to build in support of post-publication review.

The case of Colombian scientist Diego Gomez — on trial for copyright violation for sharing a research paper — is likely to reach a head later this month.