From building the biggest experiments the world has ever seen to rolling out the latest medical advances on a massive scale and pushing the boundaries of exploration from the deepest ocean to outer space - China’s scientific ambitions are immense.

Labour law will change how many postdocs — long a troubled segment of the US research hierarchy — are paid.

Just two factors explain post-PhD pay gap: Study of 1,200 US graduates suggests family and choice of doctoral field dents women's earnings.

Like junior doctors, early career biomedical researchers have an issue with contracts (or lack of them). So why don’t we strike too?

Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens and how he needed to crowdfund the resources to analyse the data.

According to the SNSF, 40% of scientific publications produced with the support of public funding are openly accessible, which makes Switzerland “progressive” compared with other countries.

Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR

A science writer challenges the sceptics community to move beyond tackling just ‘easy’ issues.

Report reveals how critical fields of research, and particular regions of the country, would fare should EU funding dry up

Why We Support New Federal Overtime Rules.

Graduate students struggling with the stresses of their work and lives can tap into multiple avenues of support.

The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.

Launched twenty years ago this week, EurekAlert has tracked, and in some ways shaped, the way science is covered in the digital era.

Scientists are now contemplating the fabrication of a human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes.

A group of researchers has released a data set on nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid. The data dump breaks the cardinal rule of social science research ethics: It took identifiable personal data without permission.

Half a billion dollars are being pledged to study the microbes in humans, crops, soils, oceans, and more.

All they needed to be more open with their data was the promise of a badge showing they did it.

Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.

New President Michel Temer — who replaces impeached Dilma Rousseff — is fusing the science and telecommunications ministries. 

A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years.

Female Ph.D.s in science and engineering earn 31 percent less than their male cohorts one year after graduation, according to a new study in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. When controlling for the fact that women tend to earn degrees in fields that pay less than those in which more men earn degrees, the observed gap dropped to 11 percent. And the gap disappeared when controlling for whether the women were married and had children.

Document submitted to the Italian Senate criticizes institute that will oversee a €1.5-billion project.

Plan spells out six proposed “research frontiers” and three “process” changes

Team finalists receive $80,000 each to develop products to overcome hurdles in big data access and usage.

The ESFRI has published its Roadmap for 2016.

Thierry Mandon on cutting red tape, French researchers’ self-effacement and shaking up social science.

A study released on Thursday found that many Ph.D. students pursue post-docs as a “default” option after graduate school, or as part of a “holding pattern” until the job they want is available.

Scientists are pleased there are apparently no further cuts

Agency rethinks approach to its massive biennial statistical report

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