Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.

Younger researchers may be particularly deterred by the fees associated with gold open access.

Forty-eight per cent of universities report drop in overseas undergraduate ‘yield’, following election of divisive president

Jo Johnson outlines UK ambition to be ‘go-to country’ for innovation and discovery, even after Brexit

Grant will help sequence thousands of plants, insects, and fungi

As neural nets push into science, researchers probe back

Michel Aubier downplayed the health risks of air pollution while on oil company Total's payroll

AI systems spot new particles, see galaxies, sense the public mood from social media.

Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen commands a cultural empire with her six novels at the center. It raises the question: Why her, as opposed to someone else?

Semantic Scholar is the first scientific engine to automatically identify the subset of a paper's citations in which the paper had a strong impact on the citing work.

Italian scientists eager to go for it alone on experiment to tackle ‘waste heat’ problem.

Don’t mention the B word: the first major reform of R&D funding since 1965 aims to make the UK the “go-to place” for science.

We have heard a lot of discussion in the U.S. recently in favor of government support for basic research but against support of applied research.

Framework 9 should be opened up to countries beyond Europe’s neighbours so that the EU can benefit more from global talent, a group of insiders has said.

Influential report suggests simpler, more citizen-friendly system for post-2020 EU research funding.

Fear of investing in innovation is preventing promising start-ups from reaching their full potential and that’s preventing growth across Europe, a conference on the future of EU research funding heard.

Statistical study of how names are geographically distributed suggests fewer professors are hiring relatives after 2010 clampdown.