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Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel calls for formal action to bake in better research practices.

Rare effort to track wages reveals inconsistencies and a gender pay gap.

Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. Recent research has examined the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures.

A planned $35-million upgrade could enable LIGO to spot one black-hole merger per day by the mid-2020s.

A new study suggests that making reviewers' reports freely readable doesn't compromise the peer-review process.

Researchers say the policy could intensify existing issues with research quality and misconduct.

On the five-year anniversary of an uprising that propelled Ukraine away from Russia and towards Europe, scientists say things are improving too slowly.

Following these guiding principles for sharing data can help researchers get ahead.

Research needs an authoritative forum to hash out collective problems, argue C. K. Gunsalus, Marcia K. McNutt and colleagues.

Unlike most faulty research practices, fraud actively evades detection. It is also overlooked because the scientific community has been unwilling to have frank and open discussions about it.

A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research.  

Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.

Why some scientists choose to forgo promising careers abroad to return to their countries of birth.

Peace and EU membership have allowed scientists in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to build a unique, cross-border research system.

Laboratory heads need training, support and accountability to connect people across cultures.

Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Annette Lykknes spotlight female researchers who discovered elements and their properties.

As the chase for new elements slows, scientists focus on deepening their understanding of the superheavy ones they already know.

More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.

Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.

The sudden halt to US government functions leaves me worried about the effects on science for years to come, says Anne Jefferson.

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do, report Brian Uzzi and colleagues.

To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals have begun publishing peer review reports. Here, the authors show how this policy shift affects reviewer behavior by analyzing data from five journals piloting open peer review.

Lab gloves, fly food and charter planes - UK research institutes are preparing for a possible snap departure from the European Union in just 10 weeks.

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do.

Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours.

If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.

Scientists who have historically been at a disadvantage when pursuing traditional funding sources are now the most successful at sourcing money from the public.

A second wave of closures looms as the government funding fight barrels towards a record-breaking fourth week.

The most-searched keywords in the Scopus database and on Google, revealed.

Space missions can continue to collect data, but thousands of federal researchers are forced to stay home without pay.