It is illegal to destroy government data, but agencies can make it more difficult to find by revising websites and creating other barriers to the underlying information.

Does size matter? Apparently not, according to the students and faculty at the world’s outstanding small universities

Its prospects for keeping dangerous people out are dubious at best. But would-be immigrants in science and tech will almost certainly be turned away.

The finalists of the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards have been announced, showcasing the best science-related imagery from the past year. This year’s crop features a bioluminescent squid, a high-tech contact lens, and a microscopic ‘brain’ on a chip.

Where do researchers from the seven banned nations go?

Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan, and Ray Dolan have today been awarded the €1 million Brain Prize by Denmark’s Lundbeck Foundation.

Starting March 15, the university will begin removing more than 20,000 video and audio lectures from public view as a result of a Justice Department accessibility order.

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