Staff at Canadian university given little guidance on how to mitigate future problems.

Germany and the UK well represented on Reuters’ inaugural Europe innovation ranking

Winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hard, especially if it's your first one. New data from a pilot project called the Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program suggest that sitting in judgment of other grant applicants can help young scientists improve their odds when they apply for their own grants.

The mathematics panel of the French research agency says the low, standardized success rate for proposals doesn’t fit with its discipline.

The world’s biggest science experiment may get more time and money for completion when nuclear officials convene on Wednesday in France.

An expert panel will examine the impact of a decade of policies under the previous prime minister, Stephen Harper, aimed at converting university labs into tools for industrial development and commercialization.

As the supply of doctorate holders grows and their academic job prospects dwindle, schools take steps to help graduates find work beyond the academy.

Researchers tease out different definitions of a crucial scientific term.

A Senate subcommittee has passed a $34 billion budget for the NIH in 2017, which specifically allocates funds for advancing precision medicine research.

Finland is the first country where the subscription prices paid by practically all universities and research institutions to individual publishers are made available.

Integration of lab notebook tool will help researchers enrich their data and make it more suitable for reuse

New data confirming lower success rates for African-Americans prompt pilot studies

Italian virologist-turned-politician Ilaria Capua has thrown in the towel. After 3 years in politics, she is leaving Italy and going back to science, frustrated by what she says is an antiscientific attitude among fellow politicians.

Agency would receive large raise for 2 years in a row after more than a decade of flat budgets

Common compliance situations can get good researchers into trouble, warn James M. DuBois and colleagues.

Students viewed by government as welcome immigrants, but questions over capacity and provincial policies remain.

Scientists make greater use of online workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk, but practice raises concerns

Two researchers today launch a game that captures this anarchic spirit. Board-game fans Caezar Al-Jassar, a postdoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and Kuly Heer, a clinical psychologist, have designed the card game Lab Wars to represent the scientific rat race, with extra sabotage.

Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back

A new report from Sense About Science reveals the scale of politics before evidence.

The Guild of European Research Intensive Universities will officially be launched in November

Government can't say how many policy studies it paid for or published, report reveals.

Some admire project's ambition; others say it hasn't justified its aims.

Radical action to erase disparity comes as new figures show lingering gender pay deficit across UK universities

Given the awkwardness of tracking postdocs’ long and irregular work hours and the risk of unpredictable overtime costs, many universities are likely to opt for hiking postdoc salaries to the threshold.

Biology's big funders announce investment will continue to 2022.

Maria Zuber helped craft campaign to rebut attacks on NSF’s grantsmaking process

Government scraps €134 million in reductions to four research agencies

Switzerland has come in second in the annual competitiveness ranking published by the IMD World Competitiveness Center in Lausanne.

Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.