As Inder Verma soared at Salk Institute, women say a parallel tale of unwelcome advances and comments unfolded.

Europe aims to catch up to China and United States in global artificial intelligence “arms race”

By limiting how long postdocs can be federally funded and by making it more expensive to keep them designated as trainees, research institutions will have an incentive to employ more permanent staff scientists, providing a much-needed additional career option for young scientist.

What people write reveals hidden biases.

The NIH announced in December 2017 that it would rereview dozens of applications that might have been compromised in terms of confidentiality.

French president announces ambitious plan to boost artificial intelligence research and lure talent to France.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government tapped Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan, a molecular biologist and head of India’s Department of Biotechnology, to fill the post of science adviser.

Money matters. But for supporters of the 2020 U.S. census, money isn’t everything.

A new study of 728 campaigns from a crowdfunding platform finds that women and students tend to do better.

President Donald Trump today signed into law a $1.3 trillion spending package that largely rejects deep cuts to research agencies proposed by the White House and, in many cases, provides substantial increases.

Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades.

A wave of retirements offers a chance to recruit female directors and open up new research avenues.

Anja Karliczek is little known in science policy circles.

Signed reviews could encourage reviewers to produce more careful evaluations, and make fewer gratuitously negative comments. Publicly identifying and crediting reviewers for their work could help them win tenure and promotions.

Computer scientist Antoine Petit, 57, is the new head of Europe's largest research organization. On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron named Petit as president of CNRS, France's national research agency headquartered in Paris.

Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka suggested at a press conference that Kyoto University in Japan could ask him to resign over fraud committed by one of his center’s scientists.

Preliminary coalition agreement pledges increase in research funding to 3.5% of GDP.

A new online tool measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them.

A new paper recommends that the label “statistically significant” be dropped altogether; instead, researchers should describe and justify their decisions about study design and interpretation of the data, including the statistical threshold.

A decision from the European Patent Office (EPO) has put the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on shaky ground with its intellectual property claims to the gene-editing tool CRISPR.

Unearthed letters suggest award committee favored promise and youth over star power.

A small group of researchers is studying how science could destroy the world - and how to stop that from happening.

But final deal on a 2018 budget could bring substantial spending increases.