Climate scientists skeptical of plans for new center

Director of education and society at the British Council says Western universities must prove they do not have ‘imperialist’ designs on the continent

Commission announces new Flagship plan with little fanfare

The new David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, showcases what was once one of the world’s great private map collections—more than 150,000 maps, globes, and cartographic artifacts.

Tired of short-term contracts. Union warns of "witch hunt" against centers where staffers obtain indefinite employment.

Plans announced today will extend the country’s Excellence Initiative for boosting university research

Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.

Vice President Joe Biden has met with thousands of stakeholders across all sectors, seeking suggestions for how to remove the barriers that are currently blocking progress in science, research, and development.

Peer review hacking, where a fake identity is used to write a favorable review, is of growing concern to journal editors.

A 2002 law in Norway that ended the country's long-running practice of giving academics 100% ownership of their intellectual property and adopted a U.S.-style system caused the per capita number of patents from academics to drop by 53% in the next 5 years.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has found a potentially powerful tool to help it tamp down the workload created by some 48,000 grant proposals annually: It can simply eliminate deadlines.

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles.

Government-funded research is behind any significant new product

Research council grants will escape anti-lobbying crackdown, government confirms.

The Commission today presented its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.

If Thomson Reuters can calculate Impact Factors and Eigenfactors, why can’t they deliver a simple median score?

A ban on state-funded academics using their work to question government policy is to begin on 1 May. It’s either a cock-up or a conspiracy

In computer science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds

NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.

Surprising results add to fierce debate over how NIH funds graduate students

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) gets poor grades from the European Union’s financial watchdog.

Scientists decry decision grounded in “pseudoscience”

The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…

Dutch push for a quantum leap in open access

And why it’s spooking publishers

Don’t get too excited about that successful appeal against a grant rejection.

A technology guru and cancer survivor has been tapped to head President Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study.

There are plenty of reasons to be upbeat about the prospects for science and research across Africa. The next challenge is to bring more of that evidence and expertise into decision making.

Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.

A British scientist successfully appealed against an unfavourable grant review — but the road to victory can be paved with challenges.