In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time.

13 tips to make submitting your paper a breeze

Concerns over AI are not simply fear-mongering. Progress in the field will affect society profoundly, and it is important to make sure that the changes benefit everyone.

David Kent breaks down an eLife article that suggests peer review scores cannot distinguish very good grants from excellent grants. In fact, at a certain point in the process, it is pretty much a random lottery.

Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won't stop unless we talk about it, says Tricia Serio.

The thirteen newer EU member states need to reform their national research systems to improve their participation in Horizon 2020, the European Commission’s director-general of research has said.

Turning scientific evidence into policy exposes a gulf between how scientists think and how policymakers work. Here’s what scientists need to know

Those judging creative scientific ideas fail to fully understand them, potentially hampering breakthroughs, research indicates

Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.

The University of California System remains a model blueprint despite Berkeley’s travails, and one the UK would do well to copy, says Alan Ryan

An outspoken biologist uses social media as a megaphone as he calls out his colleagues for hyping their research findings and ignoring women scientists.

Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates

Many Italians have refused to take part in the country’s research assessment exercise. Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao consider the protest’s impact

Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully

We are gratified when a politician shows that they know about science, but they all should.

Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated.

There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.

Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.

The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system

As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.

The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.

And how to fix them. By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus.

Scientific journal policies, physics' head start with arXiv, and differences in the culture of the two disciplines may all play a role.

Chief of new cancer immunotherapy institute explains

As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars

No member state has ever left the European Union, by Anne Glover

Although there has been a welcome increase in discussion about gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), broad participation of women from all backgrounds in academic STEM will not be achieved until institutions are transformed.

Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today’s academy, doublethinks Eric Blair

The advantages of making scientific data available for further analysis are clear, but it could also enable the trawling of data to find significant, or preferred, results.

Two high-profile cases in which universities — who by US law are the ones that must open an investigation into misconduct — stonewalled the effort.