NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.

Surprising results add to fierce debate over how NIH funds graduate students

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) gets poor grades from the European Union’s financial watchdog.

Scientists decry decision grounded in “pseudoscience”

The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…

Dutch push for a quantum leap in open access

And why it’s spooking publishers

Don’t get too excited about that successful appeal against a grant rejection.

A technology guru and cancer survivor has been tapped to head President Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study.

There are plenty of reasons to be upbeat about the prospects for science and research across Africa. The next challenge is to bring more of that evidence and expertise into decision making.

Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.

A British scientist successfully appealed against an unfavourable grant review — but the road to victory can be paved with challenges.

A famous faked study gets proved right—by the people who unmasked it in the first place.

A crisis within Canada’s federal funding agency threatens to shut down labs and end careers.

The Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science is the key outcome of the two-day conference ‘Open Science.

The UK has the most institutions in the Times Higher Education 150 Under 50 Rankings 2016

The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says EU's R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions.

Financial conflicts of interest … Concerns about a people-based funding program … NextGen VOICES … A scientific memoir … Working Life

Now that most major research funders require researchers to make their outputs available in open access (OA), new developments in the field are coming faster than ever.

Speech by Commissioner Carlos Moedas in Amsterdam, NL

Rich-get-richer effect in the EU research funding success

After a series of scandals in Nordic science, Denmark and Sweden are rethinking how they investigate allegations of academic fraud and misconduct.

A group of researchers wants PubMed to start publishing conflict-of-interest information upfront.

An Australian neuroscientist just pleaded guilty to fraud but received a suspended sentence for his research misconduct.

Scientific misconduct increasingly studied as example of ‘occupational crime’, researcher says.

Researchers are learning how to convert devices into global laboratories.

The authors of a new book challenge what they call the “frantic pace” of contemporary university life.

Human Brain Project asks wider neuroscience community to start using its hardware and software.

Springer is launching a new online initiative called Change the World, One Article at a Time: Must-Read Articles from 2015. The initiative focuses on articles published in 2015 in Springer journals which deal with some of the world's most urgent challenges. Those articles which are already open access are freely available online on a permanent basis and all other articles have been made freely available until July 15, 2016.

Most polled researchers in Britain and the wider EU think that the union benefits science.