Rush Holt, former Congressman, physicist and CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), explains how scientists should move forward under the Trump Administration.

Poor experimental design and statistical analysis could contribute to widespread problems in reproducing preclinical animal experiments.

Having a science-minded voice in the new president’s ear could potentially mediate some of Trump’s anti-science attitudes.

Information graphics and the fight for science in Trump’s America

McGill's Neurological Institute open science agenda includes open access publication of all research data and findings, and an end to the practice of patenting the university's findings.

Recommendation engine Instrumentl aims to speed grant searching.

Ten people who mattered this year.

Over 60 major German research institutions are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier's academic and scientific journals, effective January 1, 2017.

Mobile researchers get higher citation rates and are also more productive than the average.

New analysis finds that smaller labs get more bang for the buck.

The Swiss parliament approved a law to limit immigration by giving its residents priority access to employment vacancies, in an effort to shore up ties with the EU.

Science policy is slowly waking up to the realisation that the value of science may lie in people and places rather than papers and patents.

Researchers at top-flight institutions are not immune to charms of questionable journals

As the year ends, the Science desk of The New York Times asked its reporters to look back at the news they reported on that was the most memorable. These are their selections, with a focus on archaeology, biology, physics and space.

Earlier this year, the Montreal Neurological Institute announced an ambitious commitment to the principles of open science. The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings widely available. While there have been other large-scale open science initiatives the Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to open science.

Postdocs nationwide were set to have an increased minimum salary or become eligible for overtime pay until a court injunction halted new Department of Labor regulations.

Gingrich, the former House speaker and adviser to the president-elect, said "this is going to be a very science- and technology-oriented administration."