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.

Dozens of scientists ran for U.S. Congress. On the eve of the general election, 18 are still standing.

Finalists for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Science Advisory Board include researchers who reject mainstream climate science and who have fought against environmental regulations for years.

Structural biologist Shekhar Mande becomes new head of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

For some researchers it's a personal choice; other academic departments have to pay carbon offset fees.

Advocates of homeopathy say that the rat study is evidence of the practice’s efficacy, but some scientists have cast doubt on the paper.

A better-tasting tomato highlights problems with Europe’s outdated approach to gene editing.

Elena Álvarez-Buylla will become the director of the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico. While many scientists are delighted that she'll be the first woman to do so, critics worry about her opposition to genetically modified maize, which could spoil the country's astonishing agricultural biodiversity.

Scientists discuss a report aimed at keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C this century. The report will be the guiding light for governments as they decide how to develop their economies in the face of rising temperatures over the coming decades.