The upcoming European Parliament elections that will shape EU politics for the next five years and beyond will be fought on many issues, including science.

The World Conference of Science Journalists 2019 will be taking place in Lausanne (Switzerland) from 1-5 July 2019. 

Today, CERN welcomes Serbia as its 23rd Member State, following receipt of formal notification from UNESCO that Serbia has acceded to the CERN Convention.

Hundreds of thousands of people protested in London to push for a say on the terms of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.

Concerns about some key aspects of Plan S and about their workability in practice, particularly within the landscape of the Humanities, are presented, along with a call for closer consideration of the differential impacts and possible unintended consequences of the ambitious plans laid out in the Guidance document.

Deceptive publishing (aka predatory publishing) has been a growing problem for years now. What do we know about it? How should we respond?

'My question for those who say it's too tight a time scale,' says Plan S task force co-chair David Sweeney, 'is how long do you want?'

According to 3M's State of Science Index, 45% of people said they only believe science that aligns with their personal beliefs.

Hypothesis has reached a remarkable new milestone: five million annotations. 

The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group open applications for researchers who wish to join the second edition of the community advocacy programme.

The next European science and research funding programme, known as Horizon Europe, is designed to connect people with the achievements financed by their tax money, and to fix problems with innovation funding, according to Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.

Looking beyond a much used and abused measure would make science harder, but better.

Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users' passwords.

Whether probing the evolution of galaxies or discovering new chemical compounds, algorithms are detecting patterns no humans could have spotted.

Der Nationalfonds ist der wichtigste Förderer hiesiger Forschung.

The ETH Zurich Executive Board is submitting a request to the ETH Board for the dismissal of a professor, while simultaneously launching a package of measures to improve the quality of leadership and supervision at ETH.

With an analysis of DNA from nearly 300 fossilized remains, scientists are peering into human prehistory in the region.

ETH Zurich has submitted a request to the ETH Board to terminate the employment relationship with a professor in the former Institute for Astronomy. To avoid as far as possible similar cases from escalating in future, ETH Zurich is adapting its structures and processes.

The 2010 reform of the Italian university system introduced the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as a requirement for applying to permanent professor positions. Since the CVs of the 59149 candidates and the results of their assessments have been made publicly available, the ASN constitutes an opportunity to perform analyses about a nation-wide evaluation process.

Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg and specialists from seven countries call for an international governance framework on genome editing.

New guides for researchers and project coordinators will be presented during the webinar on 29 March 2019. 

The concerns of the young protesters are justified.

Hindawi partners with Publons to improve and speed up the peer review process.

New software enables the rapid submission of manuscripts for initial assessment.

The offer from Elsevier is a long way from fulfilling the Norwegian requirements for open access to research articles. There is also no movement in transitioning the agreement from paying to read to paying for open publishing. Norwegian research institutions will therefore not renew the agreement with Elsevier for 2019. 

As President Trump requests deep budget cuts on science spending, he is likely to meet strong opposition in Congress.

Inflexion acquires company from TPG Capital

The government will assess whether a UK granting scheme could help make up for lost EU research funding.

Nature welcomes a registry that supports experiments to improve refereeing.