Federally funded research will now come with an open access clause – but uncertainties remain

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan plan to invest $3bn over next decade to help scientists develop and utilise tools such as artificial intelligence and blood monitors to treat illnesses

University of Oxford snatches top spot from Caltech in this year’s World University Rankings as Asia’s rise continues.

Organizers of national neuroscience projects meet to coordinate goals.

Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results frequently in major journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to be wrong, suggests research.

Anonymous individual or group claims that 22 papers from the University of Tokyo contain fabricated or falsified data.

Peer reviews created by self-generated text machines are the latest threat to scientific integrity.

ScienceOpen has teamed up with OpenAIRE and Digital-Science, alongside two of their portfolio companies – Figshare and Overleaf, to organise an OpenCon ‘satellite’ event to be held in Berlin on the 24-26th November.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing predatory journal publishing company, OMICS Group, for hiding fees and deceiving researchers. It's a first for the largely unregulated industry.

New program aims to recruit and retain early-career scientists who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Science is a public good and deserves to be valued more highly and used effectively by decision-makers at all levels.

Investigators are now required to disclose all clinical trials, whether successful or not.

Today, a scientist's most desired citation may be from a publication not often thought of as prestigious: Wikipedia.

But UK students at universities abroad will lose out from the falling pound

NIH wants to expand the sharing of summary data from clinical trials, such as test results being reviewed here at NIH’s clinical center.

The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.

Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars.

Researchers will have to publicly report the results of many more clinical trials under new government rules announced Friday.

Critics say the big new building will ruin the city's historic skyline

A group of research funders, sector bodies and infrastructure experts are working together in partnership to promote the responsible use of research metrics. 

Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.

The 20-page report has an explicit message: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the position of the president’s science adviser should be retained.

Proposed law would ban the practice

Ruth Hubbard, 92, of Cambridge, who died Sept. 1, first female biology professor to be awarded tenure at Harvard University, and also was an anti-war activist, a cautionary voice about privacy and gene research, and a prominent feminist critic of discrimination women face in sciences.

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

As part of its update of EU copyright rules, the European Commission today proposed a copyright exception that would permit researchers to analyse on a large scale scientific data to which they have lawful access.

The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.

Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.

The Council of the EU looks set to ask the European Research Council to consider setting up a new category of grants to help student researchers establish their careers.