Ryoji Noyori, long-time president of Japan's RIKEN network of basic-research laboratories, has resigned after a year in which the organization was embroiled in controversy over fraudulent stem-cell papers.

Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize winner who has led the National Cancer Institute at the NIH for nearly 5 years, said he will step down from his post effective at the end of this month.

BioMed Central is retracting 43 papers possibly involving third-party companies selling the service.

HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation launch Faculty Scholars Program to give promising early-career scientists a boost.

The first of a number of independent reviews of the policy during the transition period (five years from the policy being introduced), and covers the first 16 months, April 2013 to July 1014, of the policy’s implementation.

Swiss researchers who work in the US are having trouble keeping their bank accounts in Switzerland due to complications from long-standing tax evasion issues between the two countries.

The next president of the Royal Society will be the Nobel-winning Cambridge researcher Prof Sir Venki Ramakrishnan. He will succeed geneticist Sir Paul Nurse in December 2015.

Ukraine will now be able to fully participate in Horizon 2020 on equal terms with EU Member States and other associated countries.

Personal genetics firm 23andMe has revealed it is to launch a new drug discovery and development division.

Wiley is piloting a partnership with Publons to give you official recognition for your peer review work. This partnership means you can opt-in to have your reviews for participating Wiley journals automatically added to your reviewer profile on Publons.

Scientific journal articles will become freely available, thanks to new policies at major U.S. science agencies.

The HBP should be remade into an international organization modeled on CERN or the EMBL in Heidelberg, says a panel formed to unite the neuroscience community.

Nature is offering anonymity for both reviewer and reviewed, but questions remain about value and effectiveness of the approach.

Giving equal weight to everybody’s opinion might be the worse thing you could do.

A new report suggests more sharing of research equipment may be a better way of getting more bang out of the science funding buck than clawing back ‘efficiency savings’ out of grant funding.

This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.

Times Higher Education's definitive list of the top 100 most powerful world university brands.

Psychology has been home to some of the most infamous cases of fraud in recent years, and while it's just a few bad apples who are spoiling the bunch, the field itself has seen an overall increase in retractions.

An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.

Republicans in the US Congress have put the NSF under the microscope, questioning its decisions on individual grants and the purpose of entire fields of study.

Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.

Writing rejection letters is never easy. Below we outline some tips for writing a more humane rejection letter.

Carlos Moedas' speech, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, in Berlin last week in favor of open science, disruptive innovation and digital technologies.

The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014

Facilities prepare for shutdown as government refuses to secure funding. Up to 1,700 jobs at 27 facilities at risk from 30 June, with $150m in vital funding tied to the Coalition’s higher-education changes.

Europe's ambitious but contentious €1-billion HBP has announced changes to its organization in a response to criticism of its management and scientific trajectory by many high-ranking neuroscientists.

While the Netherlands, France and the UK showed significant growth, other countries such as Finland, Switzerland and Spain declined. However, Switzerland still heads the ranking with 848 applications per million inhabitants.

A workshop held by the National Research Council in the US addressed statistical challenges in assessing and fostering the reproducibility of scientific results by examining the extent of reproducibility, the causes of reproducibility failures, and potential remedies. Here's the program.

A controversial statistical test has finally met its end, at least in one journal.

The NCI call it the end of an era. Harold Varmus, director of the US NCI and former director of the NIH, announced on 4 March that he will be stepping down from his post at the end of the month.