Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons.

Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’

A new study analyzes how economists talk about each other in an online forum, and finds unmistakable signs of hostility toward women.

Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.

The UK government’s proposals on science in the Brexit negotiations will be set out in a paper to be released by the end of September.

You can begin to trace the influence of your ideas with other researchers by tracking not only who cited you but who also cited the authors who were citing you.

FDA says new security policy could bar hiring of about 50 foreign nationals per year

Effort backed by the state’s flagship universities comes as US President Donald Trump shrugs off global warming.

Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.

The Center for Open Science launches Thesis Commons, a free, cloud-based, open-source platform for the submission, dissemination, and discovery of graduate and undergraduate theses and dissertations from any discipline.

In the quest to make scientific publications free to read and free to publish, the million-dollar question is: how can it be sustainable?

How your doctor was bought.

Ismail Serageldin, founding director of the Library of Alexandria, has appealed a 3.5-year prison term

New 2017 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).

Cathleen S. Morawetz, the first female mathematician to receive the National Medal of Science, died Aug. 8 at 94.

A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected.

Funding trouble at flagship research centre reflects a broader malaise in the country’s scientific priorities that must be addressed.

Emojis, smartphone technologies and revamped guidelines would boost transparency at scientific meetings, say Shai D. Silberberg and colleagues.

Institutions in Argentina and Brazil are struggling to maintain their funding and talent.

Oxford researchers are advised that the University’s Research Committee has approved a revised policy for allocating funds from the RCUK Open Access block grant.

Views can depend on purpose of editing, religious beliefs, and scientific understanding

Community-driven network will allow scientists to share ideas and post pre-peer review papers.

Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’.

A paper on conformal algebra has recently caused a stir on social media. Not because of the science, but rather the heartfelt plea in the acknowledgements.

The pipeline of women pursuing mathematics and physics is still dreadfully leaky.

Support for the Google ‘manifesto’ on gender difference recalls the rationale of eugenics.

China's rewards are richest, but many nations now offer incentives for publishing in top journals.

Malware can be encoded into a gene and used to take over a computer program.

Researchers planted a working hacker "exploit" in a physical strand of DNA.

Nearly 1,000 signatories are asking the National Institutes of Health to reinstitute the Grant Support Index proposal.