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

Budgetary cuts in funding, pseudoscience and growing religious bigotry have left the scientific community worried.

Consortium seeks country-wide licence for journals at reduced prices.

A list of instutions cancelling their contracts with Elsevier by the end of 2017.

U.S. adults see scientists as intelligent, but not always warm. This is a problem because people's perceptions of scientists' warmth influence their trust in scientific information. Could scientists be improving trust via social media?

A Chinese biologist whose team on Wednesday retracted a high-profile paper on a gene-editing technology has vowed to press ahead with experiments that he hopes will vindicate the potential rival to the CRISPR/Cas9 system.

MilliporeSigma wins a key step in its claims to “knock-in” DNA with the powerful tool.

The case for, and against, redefining "statistical significance."

German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?

A postdoc suing over exclusion from patents offers a lesson for anyone working on potentially lucrative research.

Analysis finds website can fulfill 99% of requests for scholarly papers

More than 400 authors on some 100 papers from a single journal face punishments

The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.

Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.

The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.

The European Commission should give Framework 9 applicants access to the full evaluation reports for their proposals, a Swiss position paper on the programme has said.

As an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor, editors propose an index that measures highly cited papers.

The country wants to use a focus on research to solve its problems and build diplomatic ties in the Middle East.

When the results of clinical trials aren’t made public, the consequences can be dangerous — and potentially deadly.

The country desperately needs more egghead lawmakers. Right now, Capitol Hill has almost none.

In the past few months, three high-profile science conferences have ignited internet ire for their lack of representation of women.

The National Academies has launched a new study on how to move toward an open science enterprise.

One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.

The European Commission plans to launch its open science cloud by 2020, but calls on universities to train more data scientists

Proposal to change widely accepted p-value threshold stirs reproducibility debate.

A new paper argues that journal publishers should become much more transparent about their peer review practices.

Microsoft, Google and Baidu are joining forces in Open Academic Search, an initiative led by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

What it means for researchers.

The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.

A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper.