Springer Nature becomes the largest academic publisher to open up reference lists to advance data discovery and reuse, effective as of today. Working closely

The shortlist of the year’s best science visions

From Australia to Singapore, David Matthews and John Elmes weigh the pros and cons of likely destinations

Jeremy Freeman, a neuroscientist from the multimillion-dollar research project set up by the Facebook founder to find global health solutions, talks about his goals

Numerous research programs could be abolished.

Researchers are cutting short travel, ending collaborations and rethinking their US ties.

There’s this pervasive idea that science is somehow exempt from the ugly political world in which the rest of us wallow. But even a perfunctory look at the history of American science shows that this hasn’t always been the case.

Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them.

President Donald Trump plans to change to slash spending on basic science by 10.5 percent in 2018.

Editor asked to resign from journal for saying he’ll review only papers whose data he can see.

The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.

Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.

A tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time.

Amendments aim to protect autonomy and the independence of research funders from political interference.

As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.

Updates of the model grant agreement.

WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.

A reinvigorated science policy committee is working to engage scientists, government officials, and the community—and you can too.

Richard Buckius returns to Purdue “confident” of continued federal support for research

Research and other domestic programs could have to shrink by 10.5%.

Nobel-winning inventor of ways to modify genes

Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses.

China gets bragging rights to two more internationally recognized researchers

Opportunities for students abound, but researchers don’t know what works best

Mathematical model works by trying to remove skewing of results in group funding decisions

Students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.

Software called DeepCoder has solved simple programming challenges by piecing together bits of borrowed code.

New software that sees spots and stripes are helping biologists track animals in the wild without the tranquilizer guns and radio collars.

New study sheds new light on impact of federal sanctions.

Researchers will have to deal with attacks from a range of powerful foes in the coming years – and for many, it has already started.