Rand Paul wants to add two people to every federal peer-review panel evaluating research proposals, charged with looking for value to taxpayers. Science advocates say idea would politicize federal funding of research.

High price of journals 'placing strain on acceptance' of division of labour between researchers and publishers, says professor.

The enthusiasm for science education rests on the assumption that these fields are flush with opportunity. Physicists, go digital.

Public Money, Public Code is a campaign of the Free Software Foundation Europe that seeks to transform that ideal into European law.

COOPETIC-Recherche, a platform supporting scientists selling their research skills and knowledge to academic and industry clients.

Analysis of universities' salary data suggests major disparities in pay for early-career researchers.

Critics say selection process for high-stakes funding programme is flawed.

Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.

The Marcel Benoist Prize – the “Swiss Nobel Prize” for science – is to get a new look ahead of its centenary.

Four Penn professors have signed a petition calling on the U.S. News & World Report to alter its rankings by docking points from schools that underpay adjunct faculty members.

Alibaba wants to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The advisory board includes Harvard's geneticist George Church and others.

The city of Lausanne was chosen to host the 11th World Conference of Science Journalists.

Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.

Some of the colleagues of a professor couple facing bullying allegations at the ETH Zurich have written an open letter of support.

"Artificial Intelligence, genetics, blockchain: science is at the core of today's most promising breakthrough innovations", says Moedas.

More than 400 Pennsylvanians have already learned of disease mutations.

About 40 scientific unions and associations plus 140 national and regional science academies and research councils will be subsumed under the umbrella organisation.

ETH Zurich in Switzerland launched an investigation into allegations that a leading professor mistreated graduate students for more than a decade.

Switzerland's unique geography and economy put it at the centre of the world when it comes to scientific collaboration.

The Commission made the Declaration of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) available to all scientific stakeholders, for their endorsement and commitments to the realisation by 2020.

One of the biggest and best studies of alcohol's effects on health is underway. But funding from the alcohol industry is already undercutting its results.

House Republican says cap on indirect costs would be unreasonable and ultimately destructive.

Reviewing preprints provides feedback to the authors and helps involve more scientists in peer review.

The number of EU students applying to UK undergraduate courses with an October deadline has risen in 2017.

​Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has selected Ottawa heart researcher Mona Nemer to be the country's top scientist. Canada has been without a national science adviser since 2008.

ADC Therapeutics, a Swiss start-up that specialises in cutting-edge cancer drugs, has raised almost CHF200 million ($200 million) in private funds.

Top White House science job stays empty more than nine months after president took office.

Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.

Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs.

A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.