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.

The Guild of European Research Intensive Universities will officially be launched in November

Government can't say how many policy studies it paid for or published, report reveals.

Some admire project's ambition; others say it hasn't justified its aims.

Radical action to erase disparity comes as new figures show lingering gender pay deficit across UK universities

Given the awkwardness of tracking postdocs’ long and irregular work hours and the risk of unpredictable overtime costs, many universities are likely to opt for hiking postdoc salaries to the threshold.

Biology's big funders announce investment will continue to 2022.

Maria Zuber helped craft campaign to rebut attacks on NSF’s grantsmaking process

Government scraps €134 million in reductions to four research agencies

Switzerland has come in second in the annual competitiveness ranking published by the IMD World Competitiveness Center in Lausanne.

Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.

Pension fund for academics funded by Cancer Research UK invested £211m in British American Tobacco last year

Observers are skeptical goal can be achieved

All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020. EU member states want to achieve optimal reuse of research data. They are also looking into a European visa for foreign start-up founders.

Government decree takes €256 million out of research coffers this year

From 2017 onward, any new articles accepted for publication within ACS peer-reviewed journals that are submitted by a Corresponding Author affiliated with a Dutch university or other participating research institution will be published open access, without extra fees to the author.

Biochemist and former director of NIH’s basic research institute has long been involved in science policy

Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research.

What do the world’s six most reputed universities have in common?

It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.

NSF surveys generate what seem to be conflicting data on the status of those entering the scientific job market

Preprints uploaded to a public server without formal review can speed up the sharing of biomedical information without harming the scientific process.

It’s not for oil or guns. It’s for plagiarized dissertations. And every self-respecting doctor, lawyer, and politician in the country wants one.