Outcome: Indicative statistics.

Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a new study suggests

Yesterday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law.

The University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute are vying for lucrative rights to the gene-editing system.

The trend of turning universities into businesses is limiting research freedoms in traditionally liberal institutes in northern Europe.

If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.

One Trump adviser suggested that NASA no longer should conduct climate research and instead should focus on space exploration.

What academic research caught the public imagination in 2016?

A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.

A worldwide coding competition reveals the universities producing the very best coders.

The open-access microbiology journal mSphere will give authors a "super-fast track" option toward publication. The idea has some ardent fans, but is also drawing doubts.

Home Office looks at slashing numbers from 300,000 to 170,000 under tougher student visa rules

36.4% of STEM grads still seeking employment or study.

The University of Huddersfield tops list of institutions in England with the highest proportion of qualified academic staff, while London Business School is the worst performer.

How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said Friday that it would be a "privilege" to remain in that post if asked to stay by President-elect Donald Trump.

Proposal would keep funding flat for most research agencies, but cuts could come early next year.

A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture

Finland aiming to have open access to all scientific publications by 2020.

Elsevier’s CiteScore uses a larger database — and provides different results for the quality of journals.

Key recommendation of Stern review is adopted to help reduce workload for institutions

A graph shows the dramatic rise of open access mega-journals such as Plos One, which offer to publish papers based on their scientific soundness rather than the significance or novelty of the results, and which accept research across a broad range of disciplines.

The digital transformation of healthcare is creating major opportunities to better understand disease and effective therapies. But it also poses ethical and legal challenges. A conference organized by the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at UZH addressed some of the current issues.

OpenCon Berlin was one of numorous satellite events that took place after the main OpenCon 2016 conference that happened earlier this November in Washington, DC. It was organzied by OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen and Digital Science in cooperation with the Computer and Media Service of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

A Michigan appeals court has handed PubPeer a key win in its legal battle with a researcher who claims the site cost him a job and sullied his reputation.

More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies.

Move over, Alfred... Yuri Milner, a technology billionaire, wants to turn scientists into celebrities.

Are you having trouble staying on top of the ever-growing body of scientific knowledge? Science Careers asked a few scientists to discuss how they keep up with the literature.

The government will accept applications for the job until 27 January 2017. It is not yet clear how large the adviser’s staff will be, or how the post will be funded.

Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.