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.

MIT’s Kate Darling, who writes the rules of human-robot interaction, says an AI-enabled apocalypse should be the least of our concerns.

We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.

Soft skills like teamwork and communication could boost undergraduates' career prospects.

Diverse approaches suit different goals.

Proposing a new kind of paper that combines the flexibility of basic research with the rigour of clinical trials.

How to prevent, diagnose, and treat the five diseases of academic publishing.

A solution to fix the replication crisis in science: why do scientists not simply sell what they learn from their research?

Scientists ought to address the needs and employment prospects of taxpayers who have seen little benefit from scientific advances.