Higher education institutions will risk funding being withheld if they fail to address gender inequality in the coming years.  That’s one of the outcomes of a report published on gender equality in higher education.  The report was compiled by the Expert Group commissioned by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to undertake a national review of gender equality in higher education institutions.  The Expert Group was chaired by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

At a national cancer summit, Vice President Biden threatened to cut funds to medical research institutions that don't report their clinical trial results.

The largest funding competition in Canadian science history is hitting obstacles, as almost 3,000 biomedical and health scientists apply for money to keep their research going.

Marc Fleurbaey and colleagues explain why and how 300 scholars in the social sciences and humanities are collaborating to synthesize knowledge for policymakers.

​ Dame Julia Goodfellow, President of Universities UK said: 'Leaving the EU will create significant challenges for universities. Although this is not an outcome that we wished or campaigned for, we respect the decision of the UK electorate.'

Researchers plan for hits to community hubs.

The Sex Life of the Screwworm Fly, or how Eradicating screwworm has saved U.S. ranchers Billions of $ since screwworms were eradicated from US in 1966.

Dutch push to tackle fraud and ‘reproducibility crisis’ follows high-profile misconduct cases in the country

The technique's first test in people could begin as early as the end of the year.

Singapore leads the way in Times Higher Education's 2016 ranking of the premier universities in Asia.

Staff at Canadian university given little guidance on how to mitigate future problems.

Germany and the UK well represented on Reuters’ inaugural Europe innovation ranking

Winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hard, especially if it's your first one. New data from a pilot project called the Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program suggest that sitting in judgment of other grant applicants can help young scientists improve their odds when they apply for their own grants.

The mathematics panel of the French research agency says the low, standardized success rate for proposals doesn’t fit with its discipline.

The world’s biggest science experiment may get more time and money for completion when nuclear officials convene on Wednesday in France.

An expert panel will examine the impact of a decade of policies under the previous prime minister, Stephen Harper, aimed at converting university labs into tools for industrial development and commercialization.

As the supply of doctorate holders grows and their academic job prospects dwindle, schools take steps to help graduates find work beyond the academy.

Researchers tease out different definitions of a crucial scientific term.

A Senate subcommittee has passed a $34 billion budget for the NIH in 2017, which specifically allocates funds for advancing precision medicine research.

Finland is the first country where the subscription prices paid by practically all universities and research institutions to individual publishers are made available.

Integration of lab notebook tool will help researchers enrich their data and make it more suitable for reuse

New data confirming lower success rates for African-Americans prompt pilot studies

Italian virologist-turned-politician Ilaria Capua has thrown in the towel. After 3 years in politics, she is leaving Italy and going back to science, frustrated by what she says is an antiscientific attitude among fellow politicians.

Agency would receive large raise for 2 years in a row after more than a decade of flat budgets

Common compliance situations can get good researchers into trouble, warn James M. DuBois and colleagues.

Students viewed by government as welcome immigrants, but questions over capacity and provincial policies remain.

Scientists make greater use of online workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk, but practice raises concerns

Two researchers today launch a game that captures this anarchic spirit. Board-game fans Caezar Al-Jassar, a postdoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and Kuly Heer, a clinical psychologist, have designed the card game Lab Wars to represent the scientific rat race, with extra sabotage.

Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back

A new report from Sense About Science reveals the scale of politics before evidence.