The Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics can now do backflips. That's one hell of a feat for a bipedal machine.

More members of Congress ask agency why program lapsed.

Michael Markie, Publisher at F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome, highlight Wellcome Open Research’s achievements in its first year of publishing.

Venture will launch next year and seeks to strengthen continent’s science by helping academics share work more quickly.

Leadership is ‘sorely lacking’ in key areas such as robotics and climate change, parliament’s spending monitor warns.

Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access.

The African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with F1000, is launching a publication platform, AAS Open Research.

Adding to PhD students’ woes will undermine US research and economy.

To predict what research will be transformative, a crystal ball might be your best option.

Google and Comcast won't be asked to take action anytime soon.

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) proposes four golden principles for enhancing the competitiveness of medium-sized research infrastructures in Europe.

The medicine, an antipsychotic drug, has a sensor that will show doctors whether and when patients are taking it. Other medicines will follow, experts say.

Algorithms are shaping our lives. Where'€™s academia when it comes to helping us make sense of this?

Declining outputs in California, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland have made the biggest dent in US science.

The debate over taxing sugary drinks has turned into a ferocious global policy brawl. In Colombia, proponents faced intimidation and censorship.

Gates to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.

A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.

Unusual experiment reveals that news stories can boost national policy discussion on social media.

If nations and their research institutions are to produce more impactful science, they need to encourage scientists to travel, collaborate and work across borders.

The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.

Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.

Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.

Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.

Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."

ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.

Patrick Vallance to take over from interim government adviser Chris Whitty from March next year.

Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.

In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft are protesting a looming injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to or offering services to several "pirate" sites.

Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe.