Top 10% of grantees get 37% of the money.

Researchers had complained about proposal review process, success rates.

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards showed science and scholarship are powerful tools for social change.

The European Research Council is planning to reduce the budgets for its single-investigator grants in 2018, to fund the return of the multi-investigator Synergy Grants.

Spanish researchers are still waiting for the full implementation of a law which was approved six years ago.

Macron's promise to ring fence university funding did not last two months, says the National Union of Higher Education.

Authors will have the opportunity to submit their manuscripts directly for consideration to Science.

ORCID have recognised ScienceOpen for leadership in integrating their services as part of their Collect and Connect program.

A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.

F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.

Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.

Authorea, the collaborative document editor for researchers, announced a partnership and direct submission agreement with bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological research.

Google wants to move on from this discussion and let the academics speak for themselves.

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These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.

House of Representatives spending panel adds language that limits the National Science Foundation’s ability to set priorities.

Major evaluation of country’s research landscape also found that internationalisation was a key area for improvement.

Government funding of science is essential to early career scientists.

Two top scientists are suing their employer, the Salk Institute, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination at the renowned California research center.

An Iranian mathematician who was the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics, died on Saturday. She was 40.

Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives also rejects a White House plan to cut 'indirect cost' payments to research institutions.

Nominate someone to recognise his work to promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest.

Measure would prevent Trump administration from slashing portion of grant that covers indirect costs

Thanks to a $99,000 research grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson must act swiftly to appoint a respected scientist or engineer as his science and technology adviser.

Authors submitting a manuscript to eLife are encouraged to upload it to a recognized preprint server at the same time in order to make their results available as quickly and as widely as possible.

For the first time, NWO is funding nine projects from the health and social sciences that replicate research from others.

Chinese scientists can be paid up to $165K for publishing a single paper in a top Western journal. The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research.

Physicist John Holdren was for 8 years Obama’s top aide on science and technology issues.

Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors nationwide.