Long-serving geneticist to stay in position for time being

Theresa May’s 12 negotiation objectives for science and innovation.

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Global partnership launched in Davos to prevent epidemics with new vaccines.

A project that tried to reproduce the results of 50 landmark papers turned into an arduous slog—and that’s a problem in itself.

Mixed results from cancer replications unsettle field.

Legislation proposed by State Rep. Rick Brattin, a Republican, would also fix a "broken" system by requiring public colleges to publish the price of individual degrees and the job prospects for students who earn them.

Theresa May has hinted she wants to continue research links, but it is unclear why the EU would agree to maintain the UK’s current deal.

A new study commenced work at the start of 2017: the “Next Generation Researchers Initiative,” directed by the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine.

The world’s first professor of play – funded by Lego – is being sought by Cambridge University.

A popular blog that lists “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals has disappeared, but it is not clear why.

Recent changes in the political landscape in Northern Europe have brought some new policies that are less supportive of science and education than previously.

Strategies to promote European competitiveness in innovation.

Academics in Japan are bitterly divided over defence ministry grants to universities for defence-related research.

New device will probe smog and other chemical reactions in gases.

Jeffrey Beall’s blog was shut down for an unknown reasons.

The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars.

The Research Council of Norway will play a key role in implementing the cross-sectoral strategy that forms the basis for national investment in the bioeconomy.

Nearly half of the AI companies acquired since 2011 have had Venture Capital backing.

Shift in focus comes in response to a changing world order and the threat of terrorism.

Reproducibility guru, former defence-research official and controversial entrepreneur rumoured to be on list, along with current NIH leader and a congressman.

Publications such as Nature and Science have policies that clash with the global health charity's open-access mandate.

Shouldn't all research be, first and foremost, accessible? Accessibility underpins equality.

For biomedical Ph.D. holders, doing a postdoc means earning about 20% less in the first 15 years after finishing their degrees, according to a new study

As of January 2017, the Wellcome Trust will permit researchers to cite preprints, or pre-peer reviewed manuscripts, in their grant applications and end-of-grant review reports.

Paris's École 42 is reinventing education for the future

The technique could be faster and more versatile than developing GMO crops from scratch.

A career in research has surged in popularity among Japanese school boys – even if their female counterparts have not yet been attracted to the vocation is similar numbers

Fake news has been in the news a lot lately. Fake news proliferated wildly during the 2016 U.S. election, much of it completely fabricated, usually with an extreme partisan bias. Fake news is corrosive. It mis-informs the public, divides people against one another, leads to bad policy decisions, and can even induce people to take action against imaginary threats.

Completion of department and agency public access plans means the public will have greater access to publications and data resulting from Federally-funded research.