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The US government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications. Scientists would need to reconsider what they can discuss with graduate students from other countries, or when traveling abroad on work trips.
Thierry Mandon replaces Geneviève Fioraso, who stepped down in March for health reasons, leaving France without anyone heading the research brief for three months.
To realize the full potential of large data sets, researchers must agree on better ways to pass data around, says Martin Bobrow.
Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.
Researchers hope that a more pluralistic parliament will put an end to interference and slipping standards.
Study calculates cost of flawed biomedical research in the US.
Initiative trying to validate 50 cancer papers finds difficulty in accessing original study data.
Republicans in the House of Representatives seek to reshape research agenda.
Just a fraction of universities in the United Kingdom have made public the extent of their investigations into research misconduct, a survey has found - even though all have been told that they should do so.
Movement to publicly record peer-reviewing activity gains momentum.
Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings.
Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature.
An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.
You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?
Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scrutiny of every step, not merely the last one.
The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.
Use these ten principles to guide research evaluation, urge Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters and colleagues.
'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.
Germany's ruling political parties have agreed to plough €5 billion (US$5.4 billion) more into science from 2018 to 2028.
Rumours of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate.
US science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one.
The $3-million state initiative will coordinate with a national effort to promote individualized patient treatment.
Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.
Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.
Biological data will continue to pile up unless those who analyse it are recognized as creative collaborators in need of career paths, says Jeffrey Chang.
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.
Consumer-oriented websites allow researchers to compare the merits of scientific journals and review their publishing experiences..
A policy change that could discourage UK government scientists from talking to the media is a backwards step. All researchers need to speak up to put science on the political agenda.
US funding agencies are turning to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to focus fledgling biomedical companies on success — even when that means making a scientific course correction.
