Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?

While Trump takes aim at immigration, foreign trainees consider taking their talents elsewhere

Misconduct in academia isn’t rampant but should be taken more seriously: let’s consider independent anti-corruption units

We asked three experts for their takes.

Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.

Trump has moved to fill just one of 46 top science posts requiring Senate confirmation.

If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way.

Computational thinking and techniques are so central to the quest of understanding life that today all biology is computational biology.

Maths is often a quiet contributor to problems in subjects like biology.

The European Research Council has earned a reputation for quality—and for being risk averse

The ability to participate in science has always been political. On International Women’s Day, scientists must decide how best to defend women’s rights

The gender and racial gaps in scientific professions illustrate the need for greater inclusion at all levels.

Without any doubt, the journal impact factor (IF) is one of the most debated scientometric indicators. Especially the use of the IF for assessing individual articles and their authors is highly controversial.

Although researchers have relied on international resources such as the Protein Data Bank and Flybase for decades, the current system is unsustainable because it is largely funded by short-term grants.

Research on collective recall takes on new importance in a post-fact world.

I learned not to develop any hard feelings against the reviewers or the editors...

‘Leaky pipeline’ stands the test of time, with overall progress for women in research continuing at a crawl.

Limited public funds for scientific research are being spent on reformatting manuscripts for different journals, without any apparent gain for science or society.

Policy reinstates restrictions on immigration from six countries but exempts current visa-holders.

R&D attracts many funding models, but value for money can be difficult to measure.

The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics recently, but fake news is not at all new in the world of science.

New technologies could make the scientific review process more objective and accurate — but some worry about the risks of letting computers determine what gets published.

Q&A with Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society at Arizona State University.

Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.

Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.

One of UK's top scientists, Sir Paul Nurse, says experts are being "derided and pushed back".

The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators

Lessons to US scientists in how to protect scientific integrity under US President Donald Trump.

They are finally going to be held to account for what they do with vast amounts of our money

Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.