French president announces ambitious plan to boost artificial intelligence research and lure talent to France.

I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children  

The NIH announced in December 2017 that it would rereview dozens of applications that might have been compromised in terms of confidentiality.

Nature peers into the evidence for ‘psychographic targeting’.

An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.

Explore the top universities in parts of the Middle East and North Africa based on data collected by Times Higher Education

A new study of 728 campaigns from a crowdfunding platform finds that women and students tend to do better.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government tapped Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan, a molecular biologist and head of India’s Department of Biotechnology, to fill the post of science adviser.

The SNSF is strengthening publishing Open Access: as of 1 April 2018, it will be easier to publish books and journal articles that are openly accessible.

A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.

I’m in graduate school to learn, and preprints—draft versions of journal articles that are shared prior to peer review—offer a great opportunity to do just that. Here’s how preprints help young researchers grow in ways traditional types of scientific communication don’t.

Employers favor new college graduates with moderate academic success but not high achievement, study finds. New male graduates' grades don't seem to have much impact.

Rates of anxiety and depression among PhD and master’s students exceed those in general public.

Money matters. But for supporters of the 2020 U.S. census, money isn’t everything.

A proposed policy would bar the E.P.A. from considering research that doesn't release its raw data for review, blocking some significant work.

President Donald Trump today signed into law a $1.3 trillion spending package that largely rejects deep cuts to research agencies proposed by the White House and, in many cases, provides substantial increases.

EU leaders’ rejection of British government requests for associate membership of EU agencies and programmes after Brexit has been met with widespread dismay.