Thierry Mandon on cutting red tape, French researchers’ self-effacement and shaking up social science.

A study released on Thursday found that many Ph.D. students pursue post-docs as a “default” option after graduate school, or as part of a “holding pattern” until the job they want is available.

Scientists are pleased there are apparently no further cuts

Agency rethinks approach to its massive biennial statistical report

The opinions of others are key to creating or damaging an institution's reputation

Launch of Research Integrity and Peer Review, a new open-access journal that will provide a home to research on ethics, reporting, and evaluation of research.

Following their February breakthrough, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever and nearly 1,000 LIGO scientists will share the Silicon Valley-backed prize.

Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work — and the government policy that had restricted communications.

Retractions are on the rise. But reams of flawed research papers persist in the scientific literature. Is it time to change the way papers are published?

HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announce the International Research Scholars Program which aims to support up to 50 outstanding early career scientists worldwide.

A new analysis finds that 3.8 percent of scientific studies have images duplicated from another paper.

Carlo Doglioni aims to concentrate on science, leaving trial and corruption allegations behind

Johannes Haushofer bravely posts document listing degree programs he did not get in to and academic positions he did not get

An exclusive look at data from the controversial web site Sci-Hub reveals that the whole world, both poor and rich, is reading pirated research papers.

For every characteristic of uberisation, there is a parallel in the world of research. This raises the question of whether research was "uberised" before Uber even existed?

In this interview with EuroScientist, Lawrence Rajendran explains why he created Matters, to change the way we communicate science.

A new open science business model charges those who want to keep information private to subsidise those who share it

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