Entrepreneurs are betting on apps that improve—or just replace—prescription medication.

The science publishing world is a complex one, but the pendulum is currently swinging away from the paywalled mega-journals of the last decade to a more open model.

Academics protest over government's 'dual use' research programme — which received a big funding boost.

US Food and Drug Administration says firm can provide consumers with information on genetic risks.

Initiative for Open Citations makes citation data free for all

A coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data.

A series of journalism conferences on obesity received covert funding from Coca-Cola.

PLOS now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts and persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods.

eLife now accepting manuscripts in R Markdow at innovation@elifesciences.org.

€50 million for the European Research Council (of which €16.7 million were already included in the 2017 budget).

Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own.

The 44 percent drop in funding is disproportionately large compared to overall reductions in government spending.

Newer universities excel when it comes to internationalisation, Times Higher Education’s 2017 ranking of the world’s top young universities shows

Cheap, stripped-down microcontrollers are allowing users to pack huge amounts of computing power into tiny spaces.

New tool joins a growing collection of software for accessing fee-for-view scientific literature.

The Hungary-born philanthropist's university says planned new laws will make it impossible to operate.

The upcoming March for Science is frequently described as the first time U.S. scientists will take to the streets.

Tim Berners-Lee just received the prestigious Turing Award that comes with a million dollars. Now he plots a radical overhaul of his creation.

MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.

A proposal by President Trump to cut federal spending for biomedical research by 18 percent has run into a buzz saw on Capitol Hill, with Republicans and Democrats calling it misguided.

Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right—and the technology he created needs a rethink.

Study of doctoral students in Belgium highlights the mental health struggles that many in academia experience.

It’s obvious that computers have become indispensable problem-solving partners. But it’s suddenly not enough to be a fluent user of software interfaces. Understanding what lies behind the computer’s seeming magic now seems crucial.

Planning an Open Organization Identifier Registry.

ESF kicks off a career tracking survey of doctorate holders with nine research performing and funding organisations on board.

After years of austerity, researchers fear that the latest dramatic cut will destroy the country's science.

Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns

When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.

Funnel plots are a popular tool in spotting when scientists in a field leave out negative study results, but one researcher says the method is flawed.

SpaceX launched a commercial satellite into space on Thursday with the boost of a partly used rocket, a feat that may open an era of cheaper space travel.