Italian politicians have kindled the wrath of some biomedical scientists by hand-picking a stem-cell clinical trial for funding.

The Austrian Science Fund has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system at a rate equivalent to 15 institutions from 2016-2020.

A new journal is encouraging scientists to publish single observations, no matter how small.

Though several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline, they are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.

rOpenSci, whose mission is to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web, has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.9 million over 3 years from The Helmsley Charitable Trust.

The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation intends to set-up an Open Science Policy Platform to develop open science policy through a structured discussion with the main stakeholders.

Science budget will rise with inflation amid cuts elsewhere, following government spending review.

Computer scientist Torsten Hoefler is the winner of this year’s Latsis Prize.

Researchers leave their labs to call for greater public support of research.

NIH director Francis Collins announced that the 50 NIH-owned animals that remain available for research will be sent to sanctuaries.

Numbers on racial bias in research grants awarded by the NIH show that science has more to learn about inclusiveness.

The richest awards in science were handed out Sunday night when the Breakthrough Prize organization presented a total of $21.9 million to physicists, mathematicians, life scientists and one talented high school student.

Thompson Reuters is thinking about selling Web of Science.

If you live in one of the more gender equal countries in Europe, the chances of having high quality of life are about twice as big as for those living in one of the less gender equal counties. Moreover, the chances of depression, divorce, or becoming a victim of violent death are smaller.

India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has boosted the country's economy by fostering a booming generic drugs industry and devising new approaches to hybrid crops. Now, the network of 38 national laboratories needs to nurture its own finances.

Britain is falling behind competitors in research and development investment and the government will be putting jobs at risk if it does not protect science funding in the Spending Review.

The outgoing head of CERN is among a group of seven researchers who will form a panel to provide independent scientific advice to the European Commission.

A NY District Court has granted Elsevier's request for a preliminary injunction against several sites that host academic publications without permission.

Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees.

New prime minister Justin Trudeau gives research a higher profile.

Success rates fall at five out of six councils amid warnings that the process could become ‘more of a lottery’ as reviewers are stretched.

European Commission hopes agreement will restore lost confidence.

There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.

A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..

Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.

University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a [3]Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide.

Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.

Many scientists still not bothering to address an issue that undermines the reproducibility of research findings.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced plans for two new peer-reviewed journals, Science Robotics and Science Immunology..

The Wellcome Trust is to fund more long-term research projects because of fears that the pressure to publish and the need to show research impact will prevent academics from successfully tackling the world's most pressing challenges.