Alzheimer’s disease will receive 2.3 billion USD, the biggest chunk of change devoted to one of the NIH’s various interests.

European Medicines Agency ends pharma evaluations work and moves contracts to bloc.

Experts are good at betting which scientific experiments can replicate despite some studies not being repeatable.

The Serbian Government has adopted a national policy mandating open access (OA) to all publications resulting from publicly-funded research in Serbia. The policy, titled the Open Science Platform, was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), the main funder for research in Serbia, in July 2018. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which makes a major contribution to improving visibility and discoverability of Serbian research outputs.

Open letter signed by many journals supporting the idea that publishing peer review reports would benefit the research community by increasing transparency of the assessment process.

Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature - a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market.

Observation confirms, yet again, a prediction of physicists' standard model.

Scientists and the design of experiments under scrutiny after a major project fails to reproduce results of high profile studies.

Data shows 90% of engineering and physical sciences funding in UK goes to male-led projects

Celebrating Science Booster - Switzerland's only platform for science crowdfunding.

Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.

25 technologists, activists, and scientists will spend the next 10 to 12 months creating a more secure, inclusive, and decentralized internet.

When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.

Chris Ebell, who became director of the initiative in 2015, leaves after differences of opinion with the project’s lead institution.

The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials.

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.

eLife is conducting an open search for a new Editor-in-Chief to succeed Randy Schekman.

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.

Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

A Guardian investigation, in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, reveals the open-access publishers who accept any article submitted for a fee.

Big data and diversity lacking at Germany’s biggest science organization.

Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.

Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.

Even at companies run by prominent women — where it seems that gender diversity has made great strides — why is a female leader hardly ever replaced by another woman?

University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.

Foreign faculty in Japan are less productive than their local counterparts on many measures, but better connected to global collaborations.

Tweeting can help science outreach, but may take persistence.