California has become the first state to mandate open access for the products of taxpayer-funded research.

Three girls whose passion has had award-winning and groundbreaking results offer tips for excelling at science

Breakthrough Prizes may elevate scientists to rock-stars, showering the finest minds with lucrative awards.

There is widespread ‘scepticism’ about the use of metrics to assess research, according to new evidence.

International comparisons are popular, influential - and sometimes flawed

Nature Publishing Group introduces the Nature Index.

The fraction of cited papers that are at least 10 years older than the paper citing them has increased steadily, from about 28% in 1990 to 36% in 2013.

Politicians renew commitment to research and education progammes with €25 billion over six years.

Freedom of Information requests reveal substantial hikes in university outlay despite open access push.

Consensus on reporting principles aims to improve quality control in biomedical research and encourage public trust in science

Italian physicist will take the reins at the European physics powerhouse in 2016

China has come to an unsettling conclusion: the system that it uses to invest in science and technology is broken.

On Friday Charles Munger has donated $65 million to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The gift represents the largest in the school’s history.

A scientific board that helped forge links between European researchers and policymakers will close down on November 1, 2014. It is unknown if the new development commissioner will set up a similar board.

The dominance of the elite journals is eroding.

Nature explores the most-cited research of all time.

The Technical University Dresden is breaking new ground by hiring chairs not tied to a discipline.

Steep budget cuts could push Italian universities and research centers beyond the point of no return, an academic body warned yesterday.

Hundreds of scientists around the world are asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end "burdensome restrictions on scientific communication and collaboration faced by Canadian government scientists."

Newly appointed chief executive of the CSIRO Larry Marshall says he is comfortable with crises, which can become a ‘catalyst for change and redirection’

A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia.

Er gründet eine Online-Zeitschrift ohne jegliche Schranke, twittert die Mitteilungen des Bundesgerichts und bemüht sich hartnäckig darum, dass alle Gerichte ihre Urteile zugänglich machen: Daniel Hürlimann rüttelt am Justizapparat.

Vor der Abstimmung zur SVP-Initiative war von den Schweizer Wissenschaftlern nicht viel zu hören gewesen. Nun schalten sie sich offiziell in die Politik ein.

More than half of all peer-reviewed research articles published from 2007 to 2012 are now free to download somewhere on the Internet, according to a report produced for the European Commission.

The UK will lose its leading position in science and engineering unless cutbacks are reversed, campaigners say.

The Research Council of Norway has adopted its first policy on OA to research data from publicly funded projects.

Neustart bei der Innovationsförderung.

After years of shying away from science, engineering and clean-technology start-ups, investors are beginning to take an interest in them again.

A number of Nobel prize holders have failed to win a ERC grant because their project proposals were not good enough.

University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls.