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

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.

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

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

Stay organized to help spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves!

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As AI gets more talkative, designers need to consider the ethics of gendering not just voices, but the finer nuances of speech patterns.

The post-World War II model for organizing science remains powerful, but moving beyond its limits will be necessary for assuring the contributions of science to solving a wide array of challenges.

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

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

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.

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

Conservative MPs have voted against an amendment that would have required the government to negotiate continuing full membership of the EU's Erasmus+ programme, which helps students study in other countries.

The European Union's top research official telegraphed a message to the UK's Brexit negotiators: When it comes to a post-Brexit deal on research cooperation, there can be "no cherry picking."

Chinese researchers say a novel coronavirus likely sickened 59 people in Wuhan.

Florida lawmakers have begun an investigation into the foreign ties of researchers at the state’s universities and research institutions. The inquiry dovetails with an ongoing federal probe into whether such affiliations, notably with Chinese entities, pose a risk to the U.S. research enterprise.

Springer Nature and Max Planck Digial Library on behalf of Projekt DEAL announce that the formal contract for the world’s largest transformative Open Access (OA) agreement to date has been signed.

The European Union's new innovation chief, Mariya Gabriel, wants to "revitalise" efforts to create a real single market for research, education and innovation, bridging the performance gap between eastern and western Europe.

Taylor & Francis has acquired open research publisher F1000 Research from its founder Vitek Tracz. The acquisition sum was not disclosed.

Academy commission's probe of domestic journals causes "conflict and tension".

Ivy Anderson and Jeff MacKie-Mason, who co-chair the team overseeing UC's publisher negotiations strategy, have provided the following response to a recent open letter in which a number of commercial and society journal publishers voiced their opposition to a policy, rumored to be under discussion by the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, that would require federally funded research be made freely available to the public immediately upon publication, rather than within 12 months as current policy stipulates.  The University of California believes the public should have access to publicly-funded research, freely and immediately upon publication. We are deeply …

A tool that focuses on papers - not researcher behaviour - can help readers, editors and institutions assess which publications to trust.

The UK prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings wants scientific approaches to inform government - but researchers worry his view is simplistic.

For years, scientists poured their hearts into work to develop vaccines. And, for years, they saw promising work smash up against unscalable walls.

Widely expected Plan S-style order hailed as 'major boost' to global movement

Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. So, what do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think will they benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let's see what physicist Toma Susi has to say.

Protect time for deep thinking - it is crucial for productivity in a world of constant interaction, urges Heidi Rehm.

Science chats with two experts about what future paleontologists-or perhaps even visiting aliens-might find.

If you're working on a research project in biology, you'll need citations in the life sciences. But what is life science? Here's a guide for researchers.