Authors submitting a manuscript to eLife are encouraged to upload it to a recognized preprint server at the same time in order to make their results available as quickly and as widely as possible.

For the first time, NWO is funding nine projects from the health and social sciences that replicate research from others.

Chinese scientists can be paid up to $165K for publishing a single paper in a top Western journal. The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research.

Physicist John Holdren was for 8 years Obama’s top aide on science and technology issues.

Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors nationwide.

WikiTribune has been awarded €385,000 by the Digital News Initiative fund.

Google has reportedly financed hundreds of research papers to help fight regulation that could harm it, via stipends of $5,000 to $400,000.

Office of Science and Technology Policy has so far played little role.

A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960.

In the three months following the Initiative for Open Citations' launch, the percentage of articles with open reference data has moved from 40% to over 45%.

High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.

Navigating leave policies can be tricky, so postdocs need to be proactive and investigate all their resources.

39 percent reported having been verbally harassed and 9 percent said they had suffered physical harassment at work.

Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.

Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.

Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.

Jo Johnson outlines UK ambition to be ‘go-to country’ for innovation and discovery, even after Brexit

Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen commands a cultural empire with her six novels at the center. It raises the question: Why her, as opposed to someone else?

Forty-eight per cent of universities report drop in overseas undergraduate ‘yield’, following election of divisive president

Younger researchers may be particularly deterred by the fees associated with gold open access.

Michel Aubier downplayed the health risks of air pollution while on oil company Total's payroll

As neural nets push into science, researchers probe back

Grant will help sequence thousands of plants, insects, and fungi

Italian scientists eager to go for it alone on experiment to tackle ‘waste heat’ problem.

Fear of investing in innovation is preventing promising start-ups from reaching their full potential and that’s preventing growth across Europe, a conference on the future of EU research funding heard.

Semantic Scholar is the first scientific engine to automatically identify the subset of a paper's citations in which the paper had a strong impact on the citing work.

AI systems spot new particles, see galaxies, sense the public mood from social media.

Influential report suggests simpler, more citizen-friendly system for post-2020 EU research funding.

Framework 9 should be opened up to countries beyond Europe’s neighbours so that the EU can benefit more from global talent, a group of insiders has said.

We have heard a lot of discussion in the U.S. recently in favor of government support for basic research but against support of applied research.