Having to move position so regularly means there is little stability, but there is something special about uncovering nuggets of universal truth about the cosmos.

There is a growing trend of authors purchasing a spot on the author list of papers-for-sale – and the better the journal, the higher the price.

Scientists have to publish a constant stream of new results to succeed. But in the process, their success may lead to science’s failure, two new studies warn.

While the practice of preprinting in the life sciences is not completely new, it has grown dramatically over the past few years.

Scholars and their significant others share the good, the bad and the ugly.

oaDOI is an alternative DOI resolver that gets free fulltext where available, instead of just an article landing page.

Scripps and Calibr set to join forces

Health Ethics and Policy Lab of the University of Zurich invites you to explore some of the most controversial issues in digital health.

Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system.

ScienceOpen partners with the Open Library of Humanities to open up the context of HSS research

Downing Street says it is not looking at removing students from official figures after chancellor suggests definition of immigrant may be reviewed

Public consultation: have your say on Horizon 2020

Election campaigns are light on science. But once a new president is in office, technical issues have a way of demanding attention

Uncertain government funding drives effort to beef up private support for research

A neuroscience initiative is boosting the number of female invited speakers at meetings. Other disciplines should do the same.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative aims to have major impact by 2100.

Constitutional amendment would freeze public spending at current levels for 2 decades.

The Higher Education and Research Bill has to be amended before it undermines the autonomy and vitality of our universities and the UK research base

PeerJ will be indexing one of their flagship open access journals, PeerJ Computer Science, with ScienceOpen.

Science policy fades into background for many who back Republican candidate in US presidential race

New report describes steps to double progress in 5 years

Biden announced a comprehensive plan for his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which seeks to achieve a decade’s worth of progress on cancer research in five years.

New service offers a rigorous independent peer review and helps you publish quickly in the best possible journal. Submission is free.

Meta’s mission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical information through artificial intelligence.

More than $300M in new STEM initiatives were announced at the White House Frontiers Conference.

Times Higher Education analysis reveals the institutions with the most affiliated Nobel prizewinners this century

Nature’s new kid on the block Scientific Reports is now the biggest journal in the world. But while such giants are currently overturning the world of scholarly publishing, their long-term future is unclear.

Labfolder GmbH and the Max Planck Society announced today a licensing agreement to  provide up to 11,000 scientists with labfolder’s laboratory data management digital platform

<p>Desperate health officials are investing in new control strategies, but the evidence - and the economics - are still hazy.</p>

New rules also loosen restrictions on Cuban-made pharmaceuticals.