Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services

A new open-access journal that focuses on the importance of public engagement to research has been published.

Chief government science advisor tapped to head incipient umbrella agency for research funding.

Applications to UK universities for full-time undergraduate courses are down 5% this year. David Morris explains where, how, and why this has happened.

Academia.edu, ResearchGate and private publishers all have something in common. 

Can a march spawned by a political firestorm embrace science at its essence, a quest for the complete and objective truth?

The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators

The institutions with the strongest global connections have a ‘cultural disposition’ to think beyond borders. The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology lead at the top.

John Holdren worries that immigration restrictions could harm researchers' ability to collaborate across borders.

Order barring citizens of seven countries from entering the United States has left many confused and afraid.

NumFOCUS is a nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software.

Iranian scientists have been a major boon to everything from Mars exploration to Ebola-fighting to advanced mathematics. 

We mapped the cities with the highest concentration of top-ranked universities.

In a time when facts don’t matter, and science is being muzzled, American democracy is the real victim

Michael Eisen hopes a victory in 2018 will bring a new scientific voice to the US legislature.

Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent.

The Royal Society welcomes Government’s Industrial Strategy.

How Science is doing on the front of gender imbalance in authorship.

Pilot award strategy designed to enhance funding stability to researchers.

IITs are even better than MIT at churning out founders of unicorns.

Researchers raised alarms over reports of a clampdown on grants and communications by the EPA and other agencies. Some of those orders apparently are now being walked back, but long-term questions remain.

Rejecting Trump’s science gag order, anonymous NPS Twitter accounts are still going.

The former prime minister has been confirmed as the new president of Alzheimer's Research UK.

He also immediately suspended all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contracts and grants.

Government scientists are being ordered not to talk about their research — and it’s only week one.

The curbs echo what happened in Canada six years ago.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers.

As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies that aim to profit from our writing and offer little transparency as to how our work will be used in the future.

The research commissioner Carlos Moedas has named the panel of 15 advisers who will steer the launch of the European Innovation Council.

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of NIH, "has been held over by the Trump administration," although it's unclear whether Trump may nominate a successor.