A proposal for a more peer review based funding of Swedish research prepared by the Swedish Research Council has been rejected by a majority of Swedish universities.

Under-representation of women in science greater in Switzerland than in Europe.

A BRAIN drain has stripped Australia of one in four of its scientific leaders and 671 research positions as our best and brightest head overseas.

The MIT Media Lab has launched a new kind of academic journal that embodies its "antidisciplinary" ethos.

Female researchers now account for 37 per cent of first authors in medicine’s top journals, says US study

If you had a university degree back in 1972, you were likely to earn 20% more than those without one. Today, that number has soared to 70%. But not all degrees will give you the same retu...

A controversy surrounding a study of chronic fatigue syndrome is prompting some scientists to push back against demands that they make medical research data more widely available to other researchers and patients.

Communist Party boosts defense R&D as it modernizes military

The p-value was never intended to be a substitute for scientific reasoning.

Organisations receiving government grants will be banned from using these taxpayer funds to lobby government and Parliament.

Researchers welcome new money but worry it won't be well spent

Open Data Button launched to encourage public sharing of data sets.

The new website sciencegeist.com curates news and opinions about on-going science policy issues.

The contest is another milestone in AI as Lee Sedol, Go's best player, is defeated again

Large telescopes, particle accelerators and environmental stations are among the topics covered by the eight new research infrastructure projects that are announced today as part of the 2016 Roadmap for the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).

Ellie Bothwell examines strengths and weaknesses in different higher education systems across the Europe

Scholars in the UK and Australia contemptuous of impact statements and often exaggerate them, study suggests

An influential psychological theory, borne out in hundreds of experiments, may have just been debunked. How can so many scientists have been so wrong?

New rules could stop state-funded scientists advising ministers and make it easier for companies and campaign groups to sway government decisions

Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.

Three UK neuroscientists jointly win the €1 million European Brain Prize for their work on memory.

Silicon Valley’s hoodie-wearing tech entrepreneurs are the poster kids of innovation. But the innovators who are really changing the world are more likely to wear labcoats and hold government-related jobs in Grenoble, Munich or Tokyo. That's the conclusion of Reuters’ Top 25 Global Innovators – Government, a list that identifies and ranks the publicly funded institutions doing the most to advance science and technology.

Conference aims to raise awareness of shared resources for building lab equipment.

Jisc Digifest hears openness could bring benefits, but some cite plagiarism risks

New Chinese 5-year plan promises 2.5% R&D:GDP ratio by 2020, up from 2.05% in 2014.

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for certainty: the misuse of the P value is contributing to the number of research findings that cannot be reproduced warns the American Statistical Association.

Fewer than half of academies have policies in place to boost gender equality in membership.

Children’s ages, peer environment quality, and recent funding affect decisions to move to new institutions, a new study suggests

Although overall resource funding will rise, most of this extra money will go to multidisciplinary research

Apparently creationist research prompts soul searching over process of editing and peer review.