Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

President Emmanuel Macron’s 2018 draft budget would raise research funds by 6%.

As research and editorial processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks.

An analysis of a popular reputation metric concludes it relies too heavily on social interaction.

Physicist Alexander Sergeyev gets nod from Vladimir Putin.

Biologists are posting unreviewed manuscripts in record numbers. But many are still not sure it's a good idea. A survival guide for scientists.

Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences. Funders are also getting involved.

The Society has published new evidence on international mobility and collaboration, to deepen our understanding of how, where and why researchers move to and from the UK.

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures.

With the aim of maintaining the competitiveness of Swiss research, the SNSF is launching a new career funding scheme at assistant professor level.

The Golden Goose Award honors federally funded, often odd-sounding scientific research that yields significant benefits.

What exactly are the Ig Nobels? And what can we learn from the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Annals of Improbable Results?

The upcoming referendum is unsettling researchers.

Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.

Mountains, lakes, chocolate, fondue and banks? Right? Only partly.

“We do have a major diversity problem in the tech industry,” president’s daughter adds.

Lawmakers criticize how the NIH manages the $500 million program.

Cardiology researcher Mona Nemer, is vice president for research at the University of Ottawa.

The world's first open-source, standards-based annotation capability in an EPUB viewer.

How long does that prejudice last?

After revelations of harassment and bias in Silicon Valley, a backlash is growing against the women in tech movement.

As the h-index becomes the standard for measuring researcher impact, the risk for gaming the system grows.

The waiting is, indeed, the hardest part, but some academics cope with it better than others.

Early findings from across the geosciences will soon have not one, but two online servers ready to post preprints.

Massive study of Nature journals shows that scientists from developing countries and less prestigious institutes more often prefer reviewers to be blinded to their identity.

Combining expertise from 21 labs in Europe and the US, the International Brain Laboratory will attempt to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Nowhere near enough new drugs are currently in development says a WHO report, which calls for urgent investment and responsible use of existing antibiotics.

UK researchers to build key parts of proposed Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

American Geophysical Union places harassment, bullying, and discrimination on par with falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism.

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