2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome

The Canadian government is again in the midst of its annual consultations on innovation. It seems our efforts to find the magic key to an “innovative economy” just never go away. By Aled Edwards, CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium and professor at the University of Toronto.

As talks with the publisher stall, researchers in the country weigh whether they can cope without a deal

Scientists in Taiwan, Germany, and Peru will lose access to more than 12,000 scientific journals after institutions boycott the publishing giant for high prices and minimal open-access options.

The 2016 vote to leave the European Union (EU) shocked British scientists. We propose an eight-point plan to limit the immediate damage and to put U.K. science on the front foot in the wake of the Brexit vote.

In Germany, negotiations between scientific publishing company Elsevier and a consortium of hundreds of universities, technical schools, research institutes, and public libraries stalled in December 2016. As a result, more than 60 institutions have lost their online access to Elsevier's journals effective 1 January, although some can still access archived articles published before that date. The price of the journals is only part of the problem.

The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.

Fixing problems in the academic job market by reducing the number of PhDs would homogenise the sector, argues Tom Cutterham.

The MRC welcomes the inclusion of preprints in publication lists contained within grants and Fellowship applications.

This map shows that across Africa, India, Central America and parts of the Middle East, people are more likely to believe that one of the “bad effects” of science is that it “breaks down ideas of right and wrong”.

Reading popular science articles causes non-scientists to overrate their expertise, research finds

One of the watchwords of politics in 2016 was the epidemic of “fake news” — a catch-all term encompassing propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and hoaxing — impinging on the presidential campaign. But let’s not overlook its spread in the spheres of science and medicine.

Health care policy, space and evolution led the way.

Gary McDowell, Misty Heggeness and colleagues present census data showing how the biomedical workforce is fundamentally different to those of past generations – academia should study the trends, and adapt.

Young scientists angry at budget cuts say they have been denied permanent jobs.

As the year ends, the Science desk of The New York Times asked its reporters to look back at the news they reported on that was the most memorable. These are their selections, with a focus on archaeology, biology, physics and space.

Fake news and "post-truth," which may have played a role in the 2016 elections, are also problems in science publishing and science journalism.

Eight ways labs benefit from the popular workplace messaging tool.

These scientists made important contributions to physics, biology, astronomy and more

The astrophysicist's groundbreaking research on spiral galaxies provided evidence of invisible dark matter. She was a pioneer in an era when women were excluded from many astronomy programs.

Gingrich, the former House speaker and adviser to the president-elect, said "this is going to be a very science- and technology-oriented administration."

Postdocs nationwide were set to have an increased minimum salary or become eligible for overtime pay until a court injunction halted new Department of Labor regulations.

Having a science-minded voice in the new president’s ear could potentially mediate some of Trump’s anti-science attitudes.

Libraries pursue alternative delivery routes after licence negotiations break down.

Despite the typical stigma of retracting a scientific paper, Nathan Georgette is doing just fine — serving as a model to those many decades his senior.

How the scientist who founded the science of mistakes ended up mistaken.

Mick Mulvaney suggested Zika science is uncertain, so we shouldn’t bother to fund it.

Political compromise settles immigration row that could have severed Swiss–EU research agreements.

Recommendation engine Instrumentl aims to speed grant searching.

Poor experimental design and statistical analysis could contribute to widespread problems in reproducing preclinical animal experiments.