The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given notice to dozens of scientists that they will not be renewed in their roles in advising the agency.

Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.

The party of France’s recently elected president won an absolute majority in its first general elections, with an agenda that included strong support for research.

Carlos Moedas suggested a "decision" to create the platform had already been made.

The European Commission is looking to create its own open-access publishing platform for papers that emerge from its €80bn Horizon 2020 programme.

If Asian universities are going to break into the world’s top 10, at least according to the new QS World University Rankings 2018, the most likely candidate is Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

World-leading research institutes have agreed to join forces with funding agencies and policymakers to create the European Open Science Cloud, the largest shared data repository in history.

Flood of online manuscripts generates confusion about terms for distribution and reuse.

Asking the scientific system to fix itself from the bottom up could place an unacceptable burden on junior scientists.

Jeffrey Beall says he faced 'intense pressure' from the University of Colorado Denver and feared losing his job

MEPs have sung the praises of Horizon 2020 in a debate about its mid-term evaluation, and unanimously called for a bigger budget for its successor programme, Framework 9.

Online platform aims to make peer review faster, unbiased and less of a burden on researchers

There are many obstacles to bringing the power of 21st-century technology to the NHS. But that shouldn't stop us trying.

Orpington MP keeps role in Theresa May's post-election reshuffle

Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.

Why have so few been retired to sanctuaries?

Google more than doubled investments its pharma investments in each of the last two years.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

Preprints acceptable for citation in research grant and fellowship applications.

The challenges facing researchers in Japan and some of the structural weaknesses holding science back.

What results-free review might mean for authors, reviewers, editors and readers.

Government offers 4-year grants worth up to €1.5million

NIH plans to set up a separate fund for early- to mid-career investigators.

House spending panel backs agency but offers no promises

Google and its rivals are pushing into machine-learning diagnoses.

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs.

Approach allows reviewers to focus on the stuff they know best, speeds up process.

The NIH abandons its controversial plan to cap grants to big lab and it creates a new fund for younger scientists.

ETH Zurich at position 10, EPFL at position 12.

An international league of scientists is kicking off the decades-long process of developing the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.