Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression.

Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.

Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.

Twin disasters marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth's great extinctions.

This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.

A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment

The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.

PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.

We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.

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Science investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that federal promises to enforce trial transparency have been ineffective.

The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.

Thirty Meter Telescope controversy is forcing scientists to grapple with how their research affects Indigenous peoples.

Funders driving open-access plan may use template to push for pricing transparency.