Nobel Prize winners 2015

The world dominance of US universities has further waned in the THE World University Rankings 2015-2016. ETHZ is 9th.

The League of European Research Universities calls for leadership on gender equality issues.

Authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record.

GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.

The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.

The Open Library of Humanities launches with seven journals and the support of 99 institutions.

PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.

A new survey from L’Oreal looks at the public’s perception of female scientists with shocking results. (Particularly if you live in China.)

Report warns that growing government regulations detracts from research.

In a four-paragraph editorial published in 2014, the "Journal of Criminal Justice" made 47 citations, all of other pieces that had appeared in the same publication.

According to a new paper, the "deluge" of new scientific papers that academics have to read makes it all but impossible to know what research to trust.

Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.

Change in methodology beneficial to ETHZ and EPFL.

More than 150 scientists have been nominated as prospective members of the European Commission's Science Advice Mechanism.

7 universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses.

Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.

An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.

After correcting a paper due to problematic figure panels, researchers led by Olivier Voinnet have now retracted it.

arXiv will use ORCID iDs in preference to the internal arXiv author identifiers in order to facilitate better data exchange. The arXiv author identifiers will remain to provide local user profile pages.

Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.

Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.

Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive - but some smaller institutions have done just as well.

UK data hold lessons for how to close the gender gap in bioscience grant applications, success and size, argue Paul Boyle and colleagues.

We collected some of Switzerland's most exciting technology startups and ranked them by the amount raised, headcount, and how cool and original they are.

Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.

The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.

The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..

By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..

Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.