82% of NIH papers are publicly accessible a year after they are published.

Schweizer Firmen haben bereits Millionen über die Fördertöpfe der EU abholen können.

In fight over journal pricing, University of Konstanz ends license negotiations with publisher

A Hong Kong developmental biologist says he has succeeded in reproducing a method of reprogramming cells to an embryonic like state by applying mechanical stress.

A young researcher who shot to fame in scientific circles when she published an apparently radical and simple way to create stem cells has been found guilty of misconduct by a committee charged with investigating her work

How can February’s vote in favour of limiting immigration be implemented without harming relations with the European Union or damaging the economy? Many proposals have been made, but each seems to have more opponents than supporters.

Gross war die Unterstützung für einen Appell, den Studierendenvertreter im Zuge der Einwanderungsinitiative veröffentlicht haben. Doch mit dem Aufruf sind längst nicht alle einverstanden. Ein offener Brief von Hochschulangehörigen übt deutliche Kritik.

Forscher der ETH Zürich wird für herausragende Beiträge auf dem Gebiet der Molekülspektroskopie geehrt

For all the talk that the publishers of major journals such as Science, Nature and the Lancet are charging too much for their wares, it seems a limit has been reached.

Ziele des Besuchs sind die Intensivierung der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen sowie die Stärkung des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs mit der Eröffnung des ersten swissnex in Lateinamerika.

Research Councils UK analysis reveals gender difference in success rates

Papers describing acid-bath technique under more scrutiny after institute’s investigation finds errors in methodology

Comment of Elsevier's Director of Access and Policy on a blog

US and European research programmes will begin coordinating research

In February 2013, Google Flu Trends (GFT) made headlines but not for a reason that Google executives or the creators of the flu tracking system would have hoped.

George Osborne continued his trend of throwing small crumbs of funding to science and technology while at the same time failing to announce either long-term support for basic science or a strategy to develop UK industrial research

The NIH awarded 750 fewer new research grants in 2013 compared with 2012, an 8.3% drop. The 2013 sequestration also hit the US NSF, which awarded 690 fewer grants.

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist working at CERN, submitted a proposal to develop a radical new way of linking and sharing information over the internet. The document was entitled Information Management: A Proposal . And so the web was born.

Core science gets budget boost in a bid to change research culture and increase innovation.

The Spanish National Research Council will not issue a call for new PhD, postdoctoral and technical staff in the next two years, according to its latest action plan for 2014-2017.

Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Netherlands file most applications per capita.

The US Senate confirmed astrophysicist France Córdova to lead the agency, roughly a year after former director Subra Suresh resigned mid-term.

The UK-based Wellcome Trust, the world's second-largest funder of medical research behind the Gates Foundation, has launched a free online magazine called Mosaic that is dedicated to longform science writing. The site will be run by former Times science editor Mark Henderson - who was involved with a monthly science magazine published by the Times...

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A newly released report recommends a simplified set of funding instruments at the Research Council of Norway, better strategic planning at the universities, and less detailed guiding principles from the ministries.

More than half a million researchers have now signed up for an online science passport: a unique 16-digit identity number, with an accompanying online profile, from the Open Researcher and Contributor ID ( ORCID) project. There, researchers can maintain an up-to-date record of their professional pursuits.

With the announcement of its new Data Grants program, Twitter is inviting academic researchers to propose experiments that take advantage of the full "firehose" of its 500 million daily tweets. But some researchers worry that the terms of the deal give Twitter ownership of their ideas.

My campus survey shows a lack of female leadership in areas where women are underrepresented later in life.

Impactstory will be buying a new data stream: Twitter, G+, and Facebook data from Altmetric.com. Altmetric have spent years working on the thorny problem of connecting tweets with articles.

Francis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak discuss initiatives that the US National Institutes of Health is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research.