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A new JAMA study found the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is silent on matters of scientific misconduct and fraud.

The European Commission says its outside experts have agreed there must be more integration, better infrastructure and an emphasis on concrete results.

Male professors are brilliant, awesome and knowledgeable. Women are bossy and annoying, and beautiful or ugly. These are a few of the results from a new interactive chart that was gaining notice on social media.

NIH's proposal-an "emeritus" award that senior scientists would use to pass their work on to younger colleagues and wind down their labs is being blasted in the blogosphere.

A new computer simulation explores just how sensitive the process might be to bias and randomness. Its answer: very.

Why the Norwegian Research Council is taking a stand against hybrid Open Access journals.

Surveys find broad support for government to spend money on science, but that doesn’t mean the public supports the conclusions that scientists draw.

White House plan would increase research and development funding but faces rough road in Congress.

Article in German.

Amid sanctions and a financial crisis, Dmitry Livanov discusses ongoing reforms to science funding.

Plans to double the government's investment in fighting antibiotic resistance by spreading roughly $1.2 billion in funding across several federal agencies.

The 100 most international universities in the world 2015.

In his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama spent a few seconds announcing a "Precision Medicine Initiative," but did little to explain what he has in mind.

The Wellcome Trust launches the new Collaborative Awards, enabling teams of researchers to apply together and bring new perspectives to the work they are doing.

Women shy away from fields in which talent, not hard work, is thought to be key, survey suggests.

The European Research Council (ERC) would lose €221 million, mostly in 2016 and 2017.

A few professional scientists have found a sneaky way to cheat their way up the career ladder. They evaluate their own research by pretending to be someone else.

Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.

Institutions 'unbending' on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume. Meanwhile, a deal that meets the universities’ requirements was made with Springer.

The European Commission has agreed to retain the role of EU Chief Scientific Adviser, despite the departure of Anne Glover.

Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit.

A deal being announced today with Genentech points the way for 23andMe to become a sustainable business.

Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.

How using absolute numbers and journal reputation can yield misleading results.

Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.

Data show scores given to grant applications by external reviewers don't correlate with what actually gets funded.

Ten people who mattered this year.

The former blog "Retraction Watch" will become an online, public, and freely accessible database of all retractions in every field of science.

A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.