Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings.

Researchers Reject Nature’s Fast Track Peer Review Experiment.

President Juncker welcomes world-leading scientists, discusses role of science in competitiveness and announces new mechanism for scientific advice.

Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.

Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature.

An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.

[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.

[5]Royal Society Open Science aims to tackle the biases in traditional formats.

You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?

A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD.

A peer reviewer's suggestion that two female researchers find "one or two male biologists" to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche of disbelief and disgust on Twitter today.

The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.

The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..

Science 2.0 is a new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. This consultation gathers the opinions of a broad sample of interested parties from across the EU research landscape.

Miguel Seabra stepped down from the presidency of Portugal's science funding agency. Although Seabra invoked "personal reasons" for his decision, scientists note that he resigned amid mounting criticism of the agency's policies.

'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.

Germany's ruling political parties have agreed to plough €5 billion (US$5.4 billion) more into science from 2018 to 2028.

The European Parliament has thrown a spanner into the works of Juncker's plan to slash €2.7 billion from the EU's 2014 to 2020 research budget for a new investment fund to help ramp up Europe's economy.

Rumours of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate.

The $3-million state initiative will coordinate with a national effort to promote individualized patient treatment.

Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.

Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.

Problems plague EU Medical Research Initiative.

ORCID has been awarded an 18-month, $3 million grant by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop the infrastructure and capacity to support international adoption and technical integration of ORCID identifiers.

Institutional public access plans for Open Science.

There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.

THE analysis reveals progress in closing gap, but female academics still earn nearly £6K less than men.

World University Rankings analysis reveals the biggest climbers under 50 years of age.

Over 20 European Universities (LERU) signed the DORA Declaration on Research Assessment.

An editor of Nature Publishing Group has resigned in a very public protest the recent decision to allow authors to pay money to expedite peer review of their submitted papers.