Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are inclusive, rigorous, transparent and accessible.

Why was the agreement with Elsevier not renewed?

Blockchain technology challenges the traditional Scientific Research and Publishing Process.

A massive project to supercharge the world’s largest particle collider launched in the hope that the beefed-up machine will reveal fresh insights into the nature of the universe.

A regular pastime can ease mental stress, improve work–life balance and help scientists to reach innovative solutions in their work.

A cartoon showing how the feisty orange-black butterfly uses a toolbox of biological tricks to find its way down to Mexico for winter and flap north again in spring.

As someone with a deep appreciation of education and expertise, it’s troubling to know that college is just one more locus of skulduggery, veiled and overt.

Many of history's greatest scientists were also refugees. These are their stories.

Letters about women include more doubt-raising phrases than those about men, and that even one such phrase can make a difference in a job search.

Reaching higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the University of Göttingen.

A list with some open tools and resources, which hopefully, someone will find useful.

"Their profit margins are bigger than oil and gas. Most people don’t know this,” explains Alyssa Arbuckle, Associate Director of a digital humanities lab at the University of Victoria.

Teach anyone how to create reproducible reports, with reusable environments, using technologies like Nix, LaTeX, and KnitR for languages like R, Python and JavaScript.

Retraction Watch retraction database, being built with the support of the MacArthur and Arnold Foundations. 

Kai-Fu Lee - a former Apple, Microsoft and Google executive turned investor - is placing big bets on machine learning. And China is leading the way.

An open source dashboard presenting the uptake of hybrid open access for 3,347 different journals from 42 publishers between 2013 and 2018.

Feedback on Rules of Participation from all the relevant stakeholders is essential for the European Open Science Cloud.

Google's journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.

A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.

The country’s highest executive body issues clear guidelines for dealing with scientific misconduct.

Roughly two years ago, I began to sign every peer review I did for journals. It resulted directly from a review on an article that I received that had glaring issues and made me wonder "Would they have been this sloppy if they had to attribute their name to this work?"

Are academic women are picking up too many administrative, service, and citizenship tasks?

A study measuring the gender gap in science using onomastics.

I’m deluged with outstanding applications for academic posts. So should I recruit the people who need the job most?

The Amani Hill Research Station in Tanzania was once one of East Africa’s leading laboratories – now it is a shadow of its past glory.

In 1968, a defect in DNA repair was found to underlie a disorder that makes people extremely sensitive to sunlight. This finding continues to influence research into the origins, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Most researchers agree that drafting papers and interpreting results deserve recognition — but opinions don’t always match authorship guidelines.

Only about 5% of the institutions made explicit mention of open access in their guidelines, and, in several of those few cases, the mention was done to call attention to the potentially problematic nature of these journals.

National Academies report urges program data transparency and a focus on core competencies.

From gamification of sample-size identification to a decentralised lab notebook: a showcase of the projects developed at the eLife Innovation Sprint.