How to manage the research-paper deluge? Blogs, colleagues and social media can all help.

Competitive peer review increases innovation, but it has a dark side.

Americans embraced the marketisation of higher education, with profit-making colleges and debt-laden customers. The result has been corruption and failure

Stephen Curry offers a researcher's perspective on the possible outcomes of the Brexit.

New studies on the quality of published research shows we could be wasting billions of dollars a year on bad science, to the neglect of good science projects.

Tech giants moving into health may widen inequalities and harm research, unless people can access and share their data, warn John T. Wilbanks and Eric J.

The story of CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing has tended to focus on a few key players.

Thomson Reuters claims it has “never advocated” the use of the impact factor for the “analysis of individual research artefacts or people”. 

EU funding was a vital lifeline for our world-leading scientific research sector. That, and so much more, has now been blown away

There is such a surplus of Ph.D.s that in the most popular fields, like biomedicine, fewer than one in six reach their goal in academia.

The impact factor is a poor measure of a journal's quality, and academics say it should either be overhauled or done away with entirely.

Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism.

The focus on impact of published research has created new opportunities for misconduct and fraudsters, says Mario Biagioli.

Senior academic from the university embroiled in the ‘Climategate’ scandal warns how open data can be used irresponsibly to damage science.

If you think Google has a controversial reputation at this point in its business evolution, buckle up because things are really stepping up a gear.

A postdoc job is good for your career, but don't get stuck in an academic cul-de-sac, says Søren-Peter Olesen.

"Science is, indeed, a profoundly social activity": Jeremy Berg's first Science editorial

As science and technology have advanced, it’s become possible to make it personalized as well, giving us the tools to better understand, prevent, and treat everyone’s individual health needs, writes Obama.

Recent studies highlight why policy changes are needed to make science more receptive to novelty, our columnist writes.

John Holdren tells Nature about the highs and lows of nearly eight years in the White House.

Doctoral courses are slowly being modernized. Now the thesis and viva need to catch up.

Rather than focusing on what members of underrepresented groups need to do to “adapt” to academic culture, we should be interrogating the system itself, which expects all of us to work excessively at the expense of our physical and mental health.

Thirty years on from the first congress on peer review, Drummond Rennie reflects on the improvements brought about by research into the process — and calls for more.

Research papers in the life sciences have become increasingly dense, potentially making them harder for reviewers to understand.

APCs are priced to reflect what the market will bear, which may or may not having anything to do with actual cost, since the “journal’s editorial and technical processes” are only one factor in the overall pricing.

Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small.

The Brexit referendum was not fought on evidence but on prejudice around immigration, Glover says.

Problems of modern society demand collaborative research.

China has lessons for the world when it comes to overseeing ethically sensitive research in the life sciences, argue Douglas Sipp and Duanqing Pei.

Sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many “intelligent” systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.