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.

Information graphics and the fight for science in Trump’s America

Rush Holt, former Congressman, physicist and CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), explains how scientists should move forward under the Trump Administration.

Ten people who mattered this year.

Mobile researchers get higher citation rates and are also more productive than the average.

Earlier this year, the Montreal Neurological Institute announced an ambitious commitment to the principles of open science. The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings widely available. While there have been other large-scale open science initiatives the Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to open science.

Researchers at top-flight institutions are not immune to charms of questionable journals

McGill's Neurological Institute open science agenda includes open access publication of all research data and findings, and an end to the practice of patenting the university's findings.

Science policy is slowly waking up to the realisation that the value of science may lie in people and places rather than papers and patents.

The Swiss parliament approved a law to limit immigration by giving its residents priority access to employment vacancies, in an effort to shore up ties with the EU.

That’s just one of the highlights from a new analysis of buzzworthy publications

New analysis finds that smaller labs get more bang for the buck.

Figshare announced a new partnership with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors who wish to openly share their supplementary data. Figshare are now hosting additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals.

Over 60 major German research institutions are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier's academic and scientific journals, effective January 1, 2017.

Amazon made its first commercial drone delivery on Dec. 7 in Cambridgeshire, England.

More than 60 major German research institutions are to be expected to have no access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier from 1 January 2017 on, among them Göttingen University with 440 Elsevier journals.

Eight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs. With nearly $5 billion in combined annual grants conferred, these organizations are committed to using their positions to foster more open sharing of research articles and data.  This openness, the members believe, will accelerate the pace of discovery, reduce information-sharing gaps, encourage innovation, and promote reproducibility.