We mapped the cities with the highest concentration of top-ranked universities.

In a time when facts don’t matter, and science is being muzzled, American democracy is the real victim

Michael Eisen hopes a victory in 2018 will bring a new scientific voice to the US legislature.

Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent.

The Royal Society welcomes Government’s Industrial Strategy.

How Science is doing on the front of gender imbalance in authorship.

Pilot award strategy designed to enhance funding stability to researchers.

IITs are even better than MIT at churning out founders of unicorns.

Researchers raised alarms over reports of a clampdown on grants and communications by the EPA and other agencies. Some of those orders apparently are now being walked back, but long-term questions remain.

Rejecting Trump’s science gag order, anonymous NPS Twitter accounts are still going.

The former prime minister has been confirmed as the new president of Alzheimer's Research UK.

He also immediately suspended all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contracts and grants.

Government scientists are being ordered not to talk about their research — and it’s only week one.

The curbs echo what happened in Canada six years ago.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers.

As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies that aim to profit from our writing and offer little transparency as to how our work will be used in the future.

The research commissioner Carlos Moedas has named the panel of 15 advisers who will steer the launch of the European Innovation Council.

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of NIH, "has been held over by the Trump administration," although it's unclear whether Trump may nominate a successor.

In Rio de Janeiro state, grants go unpaid as government raids science agency coffers.

Open-science advocate says journals should be clearer to peer-reviewers about terms and conditions.

Does that mean the original research was wrong? No. It means science is really, really hard.

Meta.ai is joining the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

The 2017 Innovative Seed Grant Program is accepting proposals for interdisciplinary ventures on the CU Boulder campus, due Feb. 12. The program has set aside $1 million to fund grants of up to $50,000 each.

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Vaccines work, climate change is real — and scientists’ tweets for the Trump administration.

Meet the former Enron trader and hedge fund founder who's on a quest to expose bad science.

Scientists ponder functionality of open science approach in the wake of Tanenbaum Open Science Institute announcement

Please cosign the statement below if you think the NIH should give scientists the option of using preprints as evidence of productivity in grant applications, following the recent policies of the Wellcome Trust, MRC, HFSP, Simons Foundation, and Helmsley Foundation.

Cut-throat atmosphere in world-class labs and conferences closer to House of Cards than Big Bang Theory, says Swiss academic

A geneticist's decision not to publish his finalized preprint in a journal gets support from scientists online.