The President of the Research Council of the SNSF will take office on 1 January 2017, succeeding Patrick Aebischer, who has had 16 years at the helm of EPFL.

Anders Hamsten, has resigned after acknowledging that he mishandled the prestigious Swedish institute's investigation into controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.

Moves to speed up the release of Zika virus research in response to the public health crisis highlight a systemic failure in scientific publishing.

Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.

ASAPbio meeting discusses the ins and outs of posting work online before peer review.

The widening scandal surrounding surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his employment at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign.

Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.

20 funding organizations and public funding agencies from 11 countries promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data ASAP.

High-profile physicist says his students' papers were wrongly rejected by the preprint server's volunteer moderators.

Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.

After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.

The biotech company Amgen Inc. and prominent biochemist Bruce Alberts have created a new online journal that aims to lift the curtain on often hidden results in biomedicine: failed efforts to confirm other groups' published papers.

Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals' impact factors

Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance

If the United Kingdom leaves the EU, researchers throughout the bloc will feel the effects.

Germany should award millions of euros in extra funding to its 10 top-performing universities, an international commission recommends.

Eric Lander's CRISPR history could determine the outcome of a bitter patent fight, but the author failed to disclose conflicts of interest, critics say.

The Montreal Neurological Institute plans to free up its findings, including data that point to connections between brain regions communicating at different neural rhythms.

The Chair and Secretary-General of LERU present the signatures to the LERU Statement on Open Access to Commissioner Carlos Moedas and Dutch Secretary of State Sander Dekker.

A wealth of opinions describing what remains to be done to resolve gender issues.

Big US report documents increases in international collaboration and Chinese science output.

Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies.

Pathogens & Immunity promises a quick submission procedure, since it provides a reasonable flexibility about the length of the papers and authors are welcome to include reviews from other journals and their responses.

In an open letter some of the largest academic publishers and scientific societies are announcing that they will not just encourage, but ultimately require, researchers to sign up with ORCID.

A new initiative published this week outlines how scientists can make a change to open science practices at an individual level.

ERC funds 135 Proof of Concept grants, a press release.

Scientists who submit grant applications to the NIH will be required to explain the scientific premise behind their proposals and defend the quality of their experimental designs.

$1000 to each of the first 1000 scientists preregistering their protocols with Nosek's Center for Open Science.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the top 200 most outward-looking institutions.

Science spending in Singapore is set to surge by 18%.