Critics say the big new building will ruin the city's historic skyline

The 20-page report has an explicit message: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the position of the president’s science adviser should be retained.

Proposed law would ban the practice

New science minister promises to review controversial reforms

The zoo of bacteria and viruses within each lab animal may be confounding experiments.

American Chemical Society to lead effort to match other disciplines

Controversial studies of animals containing human stem cells could be funded if they pass agency ethics review

The institute's board was sent home after denying Christian Bréchot, who's almost 65, a second term

The group is composed of: Cédric Villani, Elvira Fortunato, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Moedas, Henrik Wegener, Pearl Dykstra, Janusz Bujnicki, and Julia Slingo.

Speakers covered topics including talking to your supervisor about career plans and navigating the evolving publishing landscape.

Recall of those studying abroad is latest step after forced resignations and firings.

Researchers had rebelled against shift to online-only reviews.

Reforms by nation’s lead biomedical funder draw harsh critique.

Wellcome Trust looks to save money and time communicating the research it funds.

The mathematics panel of the French research agency says the low, standardized success rate for proposals doesn’t fit with its discipline.

An expert panel will examine the impact of a decade of policies under the previous prime minister, Stephen Harper, aimed at converting university labs into tools for industrial development and commercialization.

New data confirming lower success rates for African-Americans prompt pilot studies

Italian virologist-turned-politician Ilaria Capua has thrown in the towel. After 3 years in politics, she is leaving Italy and going back to science, frustrated by what she says is an antiscientific attitude among fellow politicians.

Agency would receive large raise for 2 years in a row after more than a decade of flat budgets

Scientists make greater use of online workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk, but practice raises concerns

The Guild of European Research Intensive Universities will officially be launched in November

Given the awkwardness of tracking postdocs’ long and irregular work hours and the risk of unpredictable overtime costs, many universities are likely to opt for hiking postdoc salaries to the threshold.

Maria Zuber helped craft campaign to rebut attacks on NSF’s grantsmaking process