The long-standing debate over open access to research results has been marked by a geographic divide - but the divide is starting to blur.

Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that will significantly increase state control over the research, funds, and membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn't actually true.

Academy will be managed by nationalist government in unprecedented move.

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The Affordable College Textbook Act aims to make higher education more affordable by expanding the use and awareness of open educational resources.

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

From the moment Sir David Attenborough took to the stage on day one of the meeting and declared, 'the Garden of Eden is no more', environmental issues topped the Agenda in Davos. Here are six moments that stood out.

Swedish school strike activist demands economists tackle runaway global warming. Read her Davos speech here.

In public, executives wring their hands over automation's negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to automate.

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

Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding

Research community welcomes meteorologist as Trump's new science adviser, after two years without one, but the office he will run is currently closed.

But it will likely lack the broad powers favored by supporters of a Green New Deal.

The annual United Nations climate talks have to kick the Paris agreement up a gear.

The Netherlands will radically shake up how academics are assessed and promoted, including a shift away from relying on citations and journal impact factors.

Ernesto Araújo has called climate science 'dogma' and bemoaned the 'criminalisation' of red meat, oil and heterosexual sex

This year, more candidates with degrees in science, medicine and engineering ran for Congress than ever before. Of the nearly two-dozen new candidates in this crop, at least seven won seats in the House of Representatives.

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, who has lived in UK for 20 years, says application refused and Italian passport kept by UK's Immigration Home Office.

The election of Jair Bolsonaro is bad for research and the environment.

A minister's decision to quietly cancel projects selected by funders could damage the country's reputation, warn researchers.