Ahead of his address at Going Global 2017, Phil Baty looks at the relationship between the world’s best universities and their place in the world

Dr. Francis Collins, a holdover from the Obama administration, will remain director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced.

Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.

Academic journals don’t select the research they publish on scientific rigour alone. So why aren’t academics taking to the streets about this?

The rules fail to make data sharing mandatory for papers to be published, which raises the prospect that some authors might decide to ignore the hint.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

Free movement and ECJ jurisdiction seen as potential stumbling blocks at Russell Group's meeting with MEPs

Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials

New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’. 

Experts debate whether technology is useful for curbing climate change.

A group of EU government agencies, law enforcement groups and academic researchers are partnering on a new digital currency surveillance project.

The Research Council of Norway is announcing a record-high amount of funding for Innovation Projects for the Industrial Sector.

White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%.

Oxford’s decision on compulsory retirement raises pressing questions about fairness – and what is best for academia as a whole.

President Donald Trump's administration has brought a long-simmering debate over how the U.S. government supports university research back to a boil.

The open access contracts between the Dutch universities and publishers Elsevier and Springer have to be publicly disclosed. That is the verdict of the committee charged with considering the appeal of the publishers against a freedom of information request.

A new book by actor Alan Alda is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.

Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications