The NIH will get a $2 billion funding hike under a bipartisan spending agreement reached late Sunday, as Congress rebuffed Trump's call for cuts.

Online survey suggests that first-time protesters and nonresearchers swelled the ranks at the weekend pro-science event

Scientific community calls on voters not to support the candidate of the National Front

In the battle against fake news, a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town is on the front lines. Armed with a decade of machine learning expertise, he is part of a British start-up that will soon release an automated fact-checking tool ahead of the country’s election in early June.

The online encyclopaedia is inaccessible under an official order, but no reason for this is given.

Scientists at Nanjing University are using a gene-editing process called Crispr-Cas9 to hack into DNA—giving them the power to add, edit and delete genes with great precision.

With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.

An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.

Commission hopes awards will help researchers find other sources of funding.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.

Technology is one of the country’s biggest growth industries, but it comes at a price.

Ten years of Dutch participation in the ERC programme have been very rewarding for the small nation. The Dutch population accounts for only 3% of the total union but it receives an impressive 9% of the ERC grants. Is this a blessing or a curse?

Nature journals have signed up to the principles of the Declaration on Research Assessment agreement.

Our culture’s understanding of science is very, very broken, and on Saturday, it was impossible to ignore.

Gift will help largest biology preprint server add staff, develop software.

Applicants for the Waterman will get more time to demonstrate excellence.

All research findings at the Montreal Neurological Institute are being shared publicly to accelerate scientific discovery.

Contribution to the public debate on the “replication crisis” / “Replicability essentially touches on the quality of research and concerns all of science”.

In an exclusive video with WIRED, Wales said he wants Wikitribune to 'bring the fact-based, fact-checking mentality we know from Wikipedia to news'

The Swedish government has changed the university law to ensure all doctoral candidates are made an employee of the university with a salary.

The Broad Institute draws NIH funding to subsidize dozens of basic research projects, many of them conducted with commercial partners. But it is the Broad’s handling of its own CRISPR business and partnerships that threaten to undermine its nonprofit mission.

New eLife's GitHub account to track new software or a new algorithm when they are central to an article and to make sure that the right version of the code that was used within an article persists.

PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts.

Crowds massed in the US capital and around the world Saturday to support science and evidence-based research -- a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump's threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists' work.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been headless since Donald Trump moved into the White House.

New papers were found through investigations into previous fraud.

Threat of a far-right president galvanizes researchers to put politics first.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently announced a new Open Access Policy that will help to maximize the impact of research.

It’s pretty rare for people in any occupation to march on their field’s behalf.

The work force is aging in the United States, and scientists are leading the way. From 1993 to 2008, the share of scientists aged 55 and older increased by nearly 90 percent.