Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.

Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.

Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.

Younger researchers may be particularly deterred by the fees associated with gold open access.

Forty-eight per cent of universities report drop in overseas undergraduate ‘yield’, following election of divisive president

Jo Johnson outlines UK ambition to be ‘go-to country’ for innovation and discovery, even after Brexit

AI systems spot new particles, see galaxies, sense the public mood from social media.

Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen commands a cultural empire with her six novels at the center. It raises the question: Why her, as opposed to someone else?

Semantic Scholar is the first scientific engine to automatically identify the subset of a paper's citations in which the paper had a strong impact on the citing work.

Italian scientists eager to go for it alone on experiment to tackle ‘waste heat’ problem.

Grant will help sequence thousands of plants, insects, and fungi

As neural nets push into science, researchers probe back

Michel Aubier downplayed the health risks of air pollution while on oil company Total's payroll

Framework 9 should be opened up to countries beyond Europe’s neighbours so that the EU can benefit more from global talent, a group of insiders has said.