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The European Commission will boost competitiveness by investing almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme.
University that gave shelter to Einstein quietly opens its doors to Syrian refugees.
Building on the momentum of Peer Review Week 2015, we are excited to announce a partnership with ORCID to extend the credit you get from your Publons verified reviews.
Laura and John Arnold, a Houston couple, have become the Medicis for "research integrity". They finance the Center of Open Science (COS) and the METRICS Institute led by J.P. Ioannidis at Stanford.
Two years in, a $1-billion-plus effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Was it poor management, or is something fundamentally wrong with Big Science?
Scientists should consider engaging more with the DIYbio community.
A new book argues for less focus on structures and funding for interdisciplinarity, and more on the everyday highs and lows of collaboration.
Huge disparities in parts of the developing world offer important clues about how American men and women perceive the world in higher education today.
The Welcome trust has collaborated with the government on several big capital projects, including Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire and the new Francis Crick Institute laboratories.
Crowdsourcing research can balance discussions, validate findings and better inform policy.
A mathematician weighs in.
This is a shared database that grew out of the "101 innovations in scholarly communication" project.
This application let you see the Altmetric Score metrics of works on your browser when you click the bookmarklet in ORCID Record pages.
Racists, frauds, and misogynists: meet the rogues’ gallery of Nobel Prize winners.
The question has actually been addressed in the scientific literature and the data don’t seem to support this assumption.
Once a paper has its perceived value raised by being cited, it’s likely to get cited again.
A new program will connect researchers with universities but won't give them preferential treatment.
Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to a researcher who spent her entire career researching traditional Chinese medicine...
Major awards honor the scientists who are usually in the least need of recognition and funding, which squeezes out opportunities for other scientists.
Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.
A debate is growing in the research world over the value of replicating older, peer-reviewed studies.
Crowdsourcing research can balance discussions, validate findings and better inform policy.
You may not have the time or interest to read the guidebook’s full 85 pages, but it’s a great compilation of resources that can be a valuable compass as you navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of a postdoctoral fellowship.
BMC editors show that the quality of peer review is slightly higher in BMC Infectious Diseases that operates open peer review compared to BMC Microbiology operating single-blind peer review.
A new regulatory framework for the 21st century.
A OECD Report on the benefits and the action required to make open science a reality.
