South Korea and Japan lead Reuters’ Asia innovation ranking

A recent statement from Carlos Moedas told us that “as of the Work Programme 2017, the current Open Research Data Pilot will be extended to cover all thematic areas of Horizon 2020, making open research data the default setting. This means that as of January 1st 2017, all funded proposals will need to make all of the data and digital research outputs they generate openly available.

Welfare state expert Peter Taylor-Gooby cheerfully admits his research has had no real-world influence – but hopes a book might.

Congress returns in early September from a 7-week summer break with a lengthy list of unfinished business, some of great interest to the U.S. research community—and just a few weeks to tackle it.

This week, the first of 1500 researchers and support staff begin moving into the largest biomedical research building in Europe, the £650 million Francis Crick Institute in London.

Can architecture spur creativity? Universities are investing in big,high-tech buildings in the hope of evoking big, high-tech thinking.

In France, the final text of a new law on Open Access has been adopted on June 29, 2016.

One of the pioneers in developing fluorescent proteins for biological studies was 64 years old.

A few hours ago, 50 months after Elsevier submitted a patent application for an “Online peer review system and method” the patent was awarded to the company.

Science has become a lot bigger and faster. Join us now to make it better @ the congress on 26 / 27 january 2017, Berne.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support.

The new director of the federal office that guards against misconduct in U.S.-funded biomedical research is aiming to shake things up—but is also encountering rough waters. Kathryn Partin, who took the helm of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in December 2015, has launched a top-to-bottom review of the office, which has been criticized for moving too slowly and meting out sanctions that lack teeth.

LinkedIn co-founder, a Nobel laureate and more than 10 university presidents among high-profile speakers at Times Higher Education’s flagship event.

UUK in search for ‘politically achievable’ solution given that end to free movement is ‘likely’

US agencies have adopted stronger policies but have not always followed them.

As failures to replicate results using the CRISPR alternative stack up, a quiet scientist stands by his claims.

Iranian judiciary confirms hanging of Shahram Amiri who it claims was a spy who had given away state secrets

Ahmed H. Zewail, an Egyptian-American who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for developing a revolutionary technique to observe the dance of molecules as they break apart and come together in chemical reactions, died on Tuesday. He was 70.

Ambitious bids in the US to map the brain and cure cancer have not boosted overall research funding.

New science minister promises to review controversial reforms

The American space agency, Nasa, is to make all its research available free of charge.

Your definitive guide to using social media as an academic

New evidence in the battle to control a gene-editing technology that is worth billions.

The zoo of bacteria and viruses within each lab animal may be confounding experiments.

New 2016 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).

Not just a competition but a resource that will continue to be useful now and in the future as we tackle improving reproducibility in the sciences.

Currently, there is no record of previous submission of a paper to other journals and the comments it might have received in the journey to the final publication. A paper that might have been rejected by three or four journals goes into press, and people hear about the results without any of the background scientific debate and conversation that led to this publicatio.

We present a deeper view of our 2015 financials, covering publishing and non-publishing expenses. As part of our ambition to change how science publishing works, especially among highly selective journals, we hope that being transparent about our costs will help to set a future course for research communication that is efficient and sustainable.

Chancellor Philip Hammond guarantees EU funding beyond date UK leaves the EU. British businesses and universities will have certainty over future funding and should continue to bid for competitive EU funds while the UK remains a member of the EU.

American Chemical Society to lead effort to match other disciplines