The European Commission and the European Investment Fund are inviting applications for setting up and managing one or more private-sector led, market-driven Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds.

5-year subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform.

Computerized search of trial registry lists worst offenders.

Podcasting can offer personal and professional benefits for researchers who want to dive in.

Calculation suggests papers with women first-authors have citation rates pushed down by 10%.

Updating postdoc administration at institutions.

PhD students who teach at private universities like Yale have been recognised as employees and have the right to unionise. It’s a historic moment.

A free, open source, preprints repository, api, and aggregator for arXiv, PeerJ, Research Papers in Economics, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, and others.

A court case may define the limits of anonymous scientific criticism

A practical pathway to becoming an expert reviewer.

Nature readers reveal working hours and research challenges. In an online poll, almost two-thirds of readers say they have considered quitting research.

These Guys Built a $273 Million Startup From Discarded Computers and an Almost Secret Source of Seed Money.

More than 1000 academics fired.

Scientific research is being skewed by researchers and journals changing what they're looking for after the results of the study come in. But some people are finding ways to fight back against their own bias.

Half of clinical trials do not have their results published. Those behind the TrialsTracker, a web tool created by the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, at Oxford University, hope to change this.

Erdogan, has taken direct control of the appointment of university rectors and a further 1,267 academics have been dismissed.

The announced ranking will include 300 universities from 41 countries

New equation also suggests way to predict a researcher's potential to produce top work.

Every state wants to be home to the next Google or Facebook. But it’s no coincidence that those companies are located in California. The latest data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) show that three of every 10 corporate research dollars are now spent in California.

Science says career success is random. Here's what that looks like.

Papers are like “lottery tickets,” researchers conclude

A collectionof YouTube’s most popular and emerging science channels.

Genome editor CRISPR could put mutant mice in everyone's reach

Crossref to allow members to register preprints.

Many biologists are founding their own firms as venture capitalists show increased interest in science.

The creators of the Open Syllabus Project hope that sharing data can both improve and reward teaching.

Researchers must have grants to win grants, new study says.

Cull of papers follows similar discoveries in 2015.

The congressional races and state ballot measures that could shape US science.

A new database at EMBL-EBI gives a home to all of the data supporting a study.