What academic research caught the public imagination in 2015? Altmetric has pulled together our annual list of the research that has attracted the most online attention in the past year.

Scientists can be stubborn. They can use their gravitas to steamroll new ideas. Which means those new ideas often only prevail when older scientists die.

The spending bill for the federal government ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH.

Executive compensation at private and public colleges.

‘Too many institutions’ are ready to ‘sweep fraud under the carpet’.

Career development a priority in university contract.

Royal Society to make ORCIDs mandatory for its journals.

The Association of Universities in the Netherlands and Elsevier have reached an agreement in principle that marks a milestone in the Netherlands' transition to Open Access.

Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe.

Research shifted focus away from harms of sugary drinks to exercise benefits.

Scientific publishers are forging links with an organization that wants scientists to scribble comments over online research papers.

PaperRank service will allow researchers to rate papers online in bid to accelerate and open up process.

Italian politicians have kindled the wrath of some biomedical scientists by hand-picking a stem-cell clinical trial for funding.

The Austrian Science Fund has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system at a rate equivalent to 15 institutions from 2016-2020.

A new journal is encouraging scientists to publish single observations, no matter how small.

Though several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline, they are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.

rOpenSci, whose mission is to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web, has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.9 million over 3 years from The Helmsley Charitable Trust.

The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation intends to set-up an Open Science Policy Platform to develop open science policy through a structured discussion with the main stakeholders.

Science budget will rise with inflation amid cuts elsewhere, following government spending review.

Computer scientist Torsten Hoefler is the winner of this year’s Latsis Prize.

Researchers leave their labs to call for greater public support of research.

NIH director Francis Collins announced that the 50 NIH-owned animals that remain available for research will be sent to sanctuaries.

Numbers on racial bias in research grants awarded by the NIH show that science has more to learn about inclusiveness.

The richest awards in science were handed out Sunday night when the Breakthrough Prize organization presented a total of $21.9 million to physicists, mathematicians, life scientists and one talented high school student.

Thompson Reuters is thinking about selling Web of Science.

If you live in one of the more gender equal countries in Europe, the chances of having high quality of life are about twice as big as for those living in one of the less gender equal counties. Moreover, the chances of depression, divorce, or becoming a victim of violent death are smaller.

India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has boosted the country's economy by fostering a booming generic drugs industry and devising new approaches to hybrid crops. Now, the network of 38 national laboratories needs to nurture its own finances.

Britain is falling behind competitors in research and development investment and the government will be putting jobs at risk if it does not protect science funding in the Spending Review.

The outgoing head of CERN is among a group of seven researchers who will form a panel to provide independent scientific advice to the European Commission.

A NY District Court has granted Elsevier's request for a preliminary injunction against several sites that host academic publications without permission.