For decades, the number of women studying economics seemed to be increasing, easing the persistent scarcity of professional female economists in the United States. But that progress has stalled.

Some scientific journals are defusing the fear of getting “scooped” by making it easier for scientists to publish results that have appeared elsewhere.

PubMed Commons has been a valuable experiment in supporting discussion of published scientific literature. The service was first introduced as a pilot project in the fall of 2013.

The South Korean government is expanding an investigation into researchers who named their children as co-authors on papers.

The Center for Open Science (COS) has launched two new preprint services to provide free, open access, open source archives for the Arab and French research communities.

New Scientist, the world’s leading science and technology weekly magazine, is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Wilson as Editor.

The FinELib consortium and Elsevier today signed an agreement making Elsevier’s globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose.

Opioids. Fracking. Zika. GMOs. Scientists should be speaking up about all sorts of science-based issues that affect our lives. Especially now, when Trump administration officials tell us that climate change is debatable.

Three women scientists at the storied Salk Institute reveal decades of gender discrimination.

Scientists often herald the role of chance in research. A project in Britain aims to test the popular idea with evidence.

Some answers to the main challenges in moving toward Open Science.

Computer scientist Antoine Petit, 57, is the new head of Europe's largest research organization. On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron named Petit as president of CNRS, France's national research agency headquartered in Paris.

Scientists around the globe nowadays regularly take to the internet to scrutinize research after it’s been published — including to run their own analyses of the data and spot mistakes or fraud.

New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible.

Ali Kaya says he used science to stay sane during his incarceration.

But female scientists suffer when their research proposals are judged primarily on the strength of their CVs.

A small group of fewer than 30 universities are having a bigger impact on the inventions driving global economic growth than the world’s major industrialised nations.

Poorer performance found to be based on less positive evaluation of female principal investigators, not differences in the quality of science

I was routinely humiliated by my head of department. Universities must tackle bullying with proper policy.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is launching a new company under the Alphabet umbrella. It's called Chronicle, and the new company wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity.

Study finds that a given discipline's perceived gender bias plays the biggest role in whether women choose to major in it.

Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka suggested at a press conference that Kyoto University in Japan could ask him to resign over fraud committed by one of his center’s scientists.

It’s not true that efforts to reform research may “end up destroying new ideas before they are fully explored.” In defense of the replication movement.

The US biomedical research agency NIH says it is dedicating $190 million over the next six years to researchers conducting gene-editing experiments, such as those with the powerful CRISPR technique.

Women are significantly under-represented as last authors on high-quality research papers, according to a recent analysis.