Ensuring we focus our definition of success around valuable contributions - instead of around the final output - would recognise and reward good research and researchers.

It’s more important than ever that scientists be engaged in public and political discourse.

Science journals are laughing all the way to the bank, locking the results of publicly funded research behind exorbitant paywalls. A campaign to make content free must succeed

Over 1,200 researchers signed an open letter expressing concern about Plan S. Then Twitter came for them -- and, more particularly, for the woman who organized the letter.

Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding 'excellence' is hampering new research, says Dutch institute

What exactly is Open Science? Its lack of an appropriate common definition has meant Open Science can be a variety of things; a social justice issue, part of a political capitalist regime, or a form of traditional science. But this lack of consensus leaves room for Open Science to be co-opted and even exploited.

A new study suggests that scientists must embrace not fear Twitter.

Another big project has found that only half of studies can be repeated. And this time, the usual explanations fall flat.

The way institutions conceptualise doctoral candidates - as individuals without baggage, able to devote all their time to their research - has very real consequences for those who do not fit this profile.

There is a myth that the public are sceptical about the merits of universities. In fact, as this research shows, the opposite is true. The public are hugely positive towards universities and see the benefits of a university education.

Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race, and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.

Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?

Progress has been made towards reducing the 85% of wasted effort in medical research-and the huge amounts of money misspent and harm caused to patients - but there's still a long way to go, say Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers.  

Biochemist Lynn Kamerlin tells Nature why she has coordinated an open letter - signed by more than 950 scientists - objecting to Plan S.

A blog about the science of human behavior and the human behavior of scientists.

The tech-funded science awards are attempting to bring glory to basic research, but so far they have done little to challenge the status quo.

A look at the system's weaknesses, and possible ways to combat them.

How can research produce more value in the absence of coordination? An opinion piece by Daniel Ropers, Chief Executive Officer of Springer Nature.

An Open Letter in response to Plan S, signed by >600 researchers from all ranks, ranging from masters students & ECRs to full professors, department heads, institute directors, and Nobel laureates, from both cOAlition S countries and beyond.

I counted women and men in a bunch of magazine issues, made some graphs… and then got stuck. I wanted to tell people about these numbers, but how could I explain them? Did they actually show anything that wasn’t already obvious?

On Ada Lovelace Day, we should rethink access to scientific fields, says researcher Jess Wade.

Scientists receive too little peer-review training. Here's one method for effectively peer-reviewing papers, says Mathew Stiller-Reeve.

A former dean chronicles the challenges of returning to full-time teaching.

To assess whether research is relevant to society, ask the stakeholders, say Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Beth Perry.

We suggest that moving from an authorship to a contributorship model would better reflect the many and varied contributions to large, complex, long-term and management-intensive projects in modern science.

The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough.

Seven researchers and campaigners tell Nature how Britain’s break-up with the EU is affecting research.

A Cornell food scientist’s downfall could reveal a bigger problem in nutrition research.

Peter Kraker on Google Dataset Discovery, the open science movement, and his #DontLeaveItToGoogle campaign.

The fall of a prominent food and marketing researcher may be a cautionary tale for scientists who are tempted to manipulate data and chase headlines.