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

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

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.

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

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

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

Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. PLOS Biology is now formalizing a policy whereby manuscripts that confirm or extend a recently published study are eligible for consideration.

Researchers say universities with generous policies employ twice the number of women professors.

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.

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

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

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 nearly 60,000-member American Geophysical Union took the bold step of revising its ethics policy to treat harassment, discrimination and bullying as scientific misconduct, with the same types of penalties for offenders. Other scientific organizations have not adopted that standard.

Replication is not enough. Marcus R. Munafò and George Davey Smith state the case for triangulation.

Switzerland appears to have three key factors for success in getting a surprisingly high proportion of its researchers’ articles cited in the scientific literature: it’s a small country, it’s research investment is large compared to other countries, and importantly, its hosting of the Large Hadron Collider is a drawcard for collaborative research.

Steven Chu, former secretary of energy, professor of physics at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate, has been chosen as the president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Budget cuts and layoffs threaten the nation's health and safety

US male PhD holders earn more than female counterparts across nearly every scientific field.

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

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.

UK announces plans for the ethical oversight of AI as it is increasingly used to drive cars, diagnose patients and even to help determine prison sentences.

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.

Research budget could rise to 3.5% of gross domestic product if agreement struck during coalition talks holds.

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.

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.

Preliminary coalition agreement pledges increase in research funding to 3.5% of GDP.

A model of the way opinions spread reveals how propagandists use the scientific process against itself to secretly influence policy makers.

A new online tool measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them.

Research into jobs finds men’s dominance in IT and biotech is reversing trend towards equality.

‘Scientific’ eugenics is on the rise, and grabbing a foothold in respected journals. The claim that these theories are a credible part of a general discussion should worry us all.