The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many researchers cautiously pl...

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets promising cash for life. She...

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review. Last month, the London...

Researchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant peer review. While n...

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent years, got a new boost...

On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to delay the implementat...

Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research funders requiring the...

Peer reviewers are four times more likely to give a grant application an "excellent" or "outstanding" score rather than a "poor" or "good" one when they are ...

A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The full article was published...

Most UK-based scientists who penned the most highly research in the last decade are not funded by the country’s top health funders, according to a study publ...

Researchers who collaborate with colleagues abroad may produce work that is less novel than those who have collaborators in the same country, a new study sug...

Researchers in Indonesia are up in arms about a metric introduced in 2017 by the nation’s government to measure productivity and performance of academic rese...

A huge new international research collaboration may jump-start the race to develop therapies for autism. With more than 113 million euros (about $132 million...

With its complex procedures, unknown evaluations and unconscious biases, applying for research funding is no mean feat. Some researchers have suggested using...

An unusual and perhaps precedent-setting deal will enable researchers funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to comply with a foundation requirement t...

Two major funders of scientific research, the departments of Biotechnology and Science & Technology, of India's Ministry of Science and Technology have annou...