The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?

Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.

In science as in politics, most people agree that transparency is essential. Top journals now require authors to disclose their funding sources so that readers can judge the possibility of bias, and the British Medical Journal recently required authors to disclose their data as well so that experts can run independent analyses of the results. But as transparency becomes the standard, many academics are resisting the trend without pushback from their universities.

Or 'how to tweet your way to honour and glory'.

Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley live by the motto of “Fail fast, fail often." Scientists would do well to likewise embrace failure.

By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.

Can funding be made more fair by instituting a lottery?

What could a Brexit mean for the United Kingdom’s higher education, research and student mobility? Switzerland offers some clues. ...

Universities should either sign a pledge not to misuse journal impact factors or explain why they have not, says Stephen Curry.

In the fiercely competitive world of drug discovery and development, secrecy is no longer as important as it once was.

One of Science in Transition’s founders describes how his experience as a young HIV/AIDS researcher convinced him that science need to change

Open competitions bring new minds, skills and collaborations to problems in biomedical research.

Imagine what would happen if the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in the referendum of the 23rd June 2016? To give our readers a better idea of the consequences of the Brexit for the country's scientists, EuroScientist has commissioned UK technology journalist Paul Hill to write a fictional day in the life of a British academic post-Brexit. This gives food for thought on the factors influencing the position of Europe's centre of gravity in research.

Scientists must publish less, or good research will be swamped by the ever-increasing volume of poor work.

The open source physics site arXiv is turning 25, and it's going to get a makeover. But what does that mean for its principles of data transparency?

Science "deserves better than to be twisted out of proportion and turned into morning show gossip."

The seven excuses for not doing so are all invalid.

A broader understanding of 'impact' could help governments to measure the diverse benefits of their investment in research.

Interview with Daniel Lakens, Assistant Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at the Eindhoven University of Technology

Billionaires are funding lots of grandiose plans. Welcome their ambition

Royal Society's President, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, on the key principles to guide the future of UK's research.

Survey responses reveal that beyond lack of journal access, convenience and antipathy toward publishers are key motivations for turning to paper repository

The current incentives structure — mostly based on publishing in prestigious journals — discourages sharing, replication, and, some argue, careful science.

However, director of the Oxford Martin School says 'disciplinary silos' were one factor contributing to 2008 financial crisis

A geeky prime minister wants to make the country more inventive.

The scientific community must do a better job confronting the issues facing women in science, our author writes

The problem of bias in published research must be tackled in a consistent and comprehensive fashion, says Adam G. Dunn.

Breaking down lengthy, narrative-driven biomedical articles into brief reports on singular observations or experiments could increase reproducibility and accessibility in the literature.

There’s a tension between Germany’s desire to be in the global elite of higher education while remaining egalitarian.