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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.
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.
Building on the momentum of Peer Review Week 2015, we are excited to announce a partnership with ORCID to extend the credit you get from your Publons verified reviews.
University that gave shelter to Einstein quietly opens its doors to Syrian refugees.
The European Commission will boost competitiveness by investing almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme.
LERU Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency.
Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.
A new program will connect researchers with universities but won't give them preferential treatment.
The world dominance of US universities has further waned in the THE World University Rankings 2015-2016. ETHZ is 9th.
The League of European Research Universities calls for leadership on gender equality issues.
Authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record.
GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.
The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.
The Open Library of Humanities launches with seven journals and the support of 99 institutions.
