A feeling that good performance is not adequately rewarded is pervading the research world.

Women and men applying for geoscience postdocs receive very different letters of support from their mentors.

Scientists are turning to a software–development site to share data and code.

Research gets 3.7% increase as government prepares for election year.

Women publish and review less than men in American Geophysical Union journals, but have a higher acceptance rate.

The open-access journal eLife is dropping one of its most distinctive features: free publishing. From 2017, it will charge a fee of $2,500 for all accepted papers.

For the head of AstraZeneca’s genomics initiative, the challenge is not just getting the sequences, but in putting them to use — wisely.

Tensions between Cuba and the United States are easing. But researchers still struggle to join the scientific world.

Around the world, poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers.

Investigators are now required to disclose all clinical trials, whether successful or not.

Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.

'Reproducibility editor' Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others

Papers accepted for publication in Nature and an initial 12 other Nature titles will be required to include information on whether and how others can access the underlying data.

Likelihood of stopgap spending measure grows.

US agencies have adopted stronger policies but have not always followed them.

As failures to replicate results using the CRISPR alternative stack up, a quiet scientist stands by his claims.

Ambitious bids in the US to map the brain and cure cancer have not boosted overall research funding.