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Scientists and the design of experiments under scrutiny after a major project fails to reproduce results of high profile studies.
A look at the journey psychology has made toward becoming a robust and mature science.
A Guardian investigation, in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, reveals the open-access publishers who accept any article submitted for a fee.
University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.
Caucher Birkar grew up on a farm near the Kurdish city of Marivan in Iran and spoke little English when he began his PhD.
Researcher Jess Wade says efforts to attract girls into science are not evidence-based – and are not working.
Proposed body would monitor universities to ensure that allegations of malpractice are properly investigated.
Late-night research, isolation and a strict, male-dominated hierarchy are the perfect conditions for sexual harassment. With colleges struggling to enforce conduct codes, what can be done?
Elsevier - one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers - are monitoring Open Science in the EU on behalf of the European Commission. Jon Tennant argues that they cannot be trusted.
Far from driving scientific progress, competition is actually taking a negative toll on research output. We need a new model of working that encourages transparency, openness and may improve research standards.
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.
I’m deluged with outstanding applications for academic posts. So should I recruit the people who need the job most?
Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings.
It takes an average of 15 clicks for a researcher to find and access a journal article. This time could be much better spent
Institutions including Oxford and Cambridge under scrutiny as the number of academic misconduct cases surges.
There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many.
Publication will highlight pioneering work of scientists searching for cures to diseases like HIV and malaria and solutions to climate change.
Across the UK, universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. What steps can they take?
The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: We will miss him for ever.
