It’s another blow to an industry that has been hammered in the U.S. and Europe, leaving a huge opportunity for China to emerge as a global leader in nuclear technology.

They act as a “social vaccine” that protects female students against negative stereotypes and gives them a sense of belonging.

The Research Council of Norway is giving universities and university colleges a six-month deadline to upload articles stemming from Council-funded projects to open repositories.

Despite criticism of an earlier draft of the budget proposal, the new proposal indicates the White House is determined to stay its course.

The universities in the Netherlands and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have recently concluded a three-year agreement guaranteeing 100% open access to academic journals.

Technology, innovation and digitalisation must be seen as sources of income and not as costs to a business.

An Imperial-led study will focus on how the world can meet climate change targets by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Globe-trotting scientists are surprisingly hard to track, but data from ORCID provide a window into their movements.

ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.

Molecular geneticist and university administrator Frédérique Vidal is France’s new minister for higher education, research, and innovation.

Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.

NIH director avoids criticism of his political bosses, touts value of NIH-funded research.

Some of the world’s largest research funders and NGOs today agreed to adopt the WHO's strong standards on clinical trial transparency.

A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.

Government may delay decision pending court decisions.

China has a lucrative market for fake research reagents. Some scientists are fighting back.

New technologies could deliver the benefits of nature without the hassle of life

We describe the mathematical foundations and structure of TrueReview, an open-source tool we propose to build in support of post-publication review.

The case of Colombian scientist Diego Gomez — on trial for copyright violation for sharing a research paper — is likely to reach a head later this month.

Add another high-profile departure to the list of people leaving Verily, the Google-spawned health science company: Thomas Insel, a neuroscientist and former head of the National Institutes of Mental Health who was leading Verily’s mental health initiatives.

Researchers and manufacturers face possible jail time — or execution — for fraudulent submissions to nation's drug agency.

Technologist argues that artificial intelligence could make publishing decisions in milliseconds.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans last week to impose a new grant scoring system that would cap how much support an investigator can receive from the agency.

Analysis of scholarly publishing’s ‘Napster’ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research. 35 per cent of articles downloaded from Sci-Hub were less than two years old when they were accessed.

Rise in copyright breaches prompts industry to discuss ways to allow ‘fair sharing’ of articles.

New York City investor organized discussion to explain biomedical “ecosystem” to Trump officials

A $2 million crowdfunding campaign will finance an ambitious series of studies—designed under the watchful eye of the FDA—into psychedelics as treatment.

At the halfway point of the EU’s biggest research and innovation funding programme, Horizon 2020, we explore a selection of EU-funded projects whose breakthroughs could help to shape Europe during the next 60 years.

It's hard to believe how "far ahead" China is on this front until you see it with your own eyes.

An analysis shining light on institutions that have thought outside the box on research collaboration and funding.