The President of the Research Council of the SNSF will take office on 1 January 2017, succeeding Patrick Aebischer, who has had 16 years at the helm of EPFL.

Massimo Inguscio will take over from engineer Luigi Nicolais as president of Italy's largest research organization.

New rules could stop state-funded scientists advising ministers and make it easier for companies and campaign groups to sway government decisions

Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.

Moves to speed up the release of Zika virus research in response to the public health crisis highlight a systemic failure in scientific publishing.

Anders Hamsten, has resigned after acknowledging that he mishandled the prestigious Swedish institute's investigation into controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.

ASAPbio meeting discusses the ins and outs of posting work online before peer review.

After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.

Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.

High-profile physicist says his students' papers were wrongly rejected by the preprint server's volunteer moderators.

20 funding organizations and public funding agencies from 11 countries promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data ASAP.

Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.

The widening scandal surrounding surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his employment at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign.