Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.

A tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time.

Amendments aim to protect autonomy and the independence of research funders from political interference.

As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.

Updates of the model grant agreement.

WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.

A reinvigorated science policy committee is working to engage scientists, government officials, and the community—and you can too.

Richard Buckius returns to Purdue “confident” of continued federal support for research

Research and other domestic programs could have to shrink by 10.5%.

Nobel-winning inventor of ways to modify genes

Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses.

China gets bragging rights to two more internationally recognized researchers

Opportunities for students abound, but researchers don’t know what works best

Mathematical model works by trying to remove skewing of results in group funding decisions

Students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.

Software called DeepCoder has solved simple programming challenges by piecing together bits of borrowed code.

New software that sees spots and stripes are helping biologists track animals in the wild without the tranquilizer guns and radio collars.

New study sheds new light on impact of federal sanctions.

Researchers will have to deal with attacks from a range of powerful foes in the coming years – and for many, it has already started.

When firing Allen Braun, the NIDCD also barred his colleagues from publishing data collected over a 25-year period.

AAAS, AGU now among official partners.

Beijing is ready for the US to stop taking all the credit on AI advancements.

Researchers at Stanford University have created an AI algorithm that can identify skin cancer as well as a professional doctor.

Crowd troubled by direction of Trump administration.

ESA today announced it has adopted an Open Access policy for its content such as still images, videos and selected sets of data. 

Global research funds for these illnesses are at their lowest levels for a decade, when cash for West Africa epidemic is excluded.

The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the 2017 Erasmus Prize to the Canadian cultural sociologist Michèle Lamont.

HBO has released the first teaser for its upcoming film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The story of Henrietta Lacks was documented in Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book of the same title.

Universities across the country are struggling with rising journal prices

Existing model of outreach that seeks to inform an ‘ignorant’ public is broken.