Science

UK government ‘negligent’ to begin negotiations to leave EU without key role being filled, campaigners say

First Israeli university in China welcomes students this summer

Task force established by government to explore UK open-data landscape calls for greater efforts to ensure data quality 

Twenty-one countries attend annual meeting to showcase progress of multimillion-pound Deltas initiative

King’s College London and TU Dresden ‘Transcampus’ aims to strengthen ties between UK and Germany 

Jo Johnson outlines UK ambition to be ‘go-to country’ for innovation and discovery, even after Brexit

Paul Feldman explains why the UK must be ready to embrace research collaborations on an increasingly international scale

Academics standing for election aim to stand up for evidence-based policymaking

Geoffrey Boulton writes the first in a series of articles from Jisc on research in the age of open science

Adam Tickell calls on the UK higher education sector to look again at its environmental policies

‘Shocking’ shift away from fundamental projects harms country's scientific reputation, says author of report

University will establish 50 degrees over the next five years

Low salaries, excessive bureaucracy and poorly defined research policies add to region’s woes

Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on the gruelling truths faced by injured soldiers, and their carers and families

Director-general of research and innovation at the European Commission says university research funding would not be affected

Research policy expert says there is ‘no need’ for higher education to make ‘special case’ for universities during negotiations

As student loan debt in the UK passes £100 billion, Sir Keith Burnett says it’s time we faced up to the real cost of tuition fees and debt

Deft hands make light work of the incomplete ‘jigsaw’ that is physics, says Cait MacPhee

Clare Bambra commends a polemic that shines a light on the fatal flaws in US healthcare policy

Hermann Hauser calls on vice-chancellors to ‘take a stand against pseudoscience’

Learning to manage guilt, shame, anger and joy is increasingly part of your job, says Kirsty Finn

Too busy for science? Anna Watts suggests that you make time for this engaging whistlestop tour led by an astrophysicist and seasoned science communicator

Greater outreach by scientists could ramp up demand for politicians with better scientific training, says David Berman

South African minister says many collaborations amount to little more than ‘visits’

Sector-wide initiative led by Science Council seeks to address ‘overlooked’ part of academic workforce

Country’s scientists must be able to demonstrate that they can continue competing on the world stage, senior academic says

Ahmadreza Djalali is being used as a cautionary example to other scholars working outside Iran, academics claim

Study outlines how publishers’ guidelines led to adoption of positive research practices

Report urges academy to ‘embrace’ opportunities for wider research dissemination

Nature Index shows that more than half of Chinese-authored papers in high-quality natural science journals featured international collaboration in 2016

Are scholars really so out of touch with the real world or do we need to look again at this tired narrative that doesn’t reflect the reality of modern academia, asks James Georgalakis

US scholar argues that academics punch above their weight in key discoveries

Luna C. M. Centifanti on the problems surrounding research practices in psychology and how they can be corrected

Support for medical science and the humanities will increase under 2017 budget deal

Medical charity sets out demands to allow it to invest ‘confidently’

Researcher talks of anger over job loss caused by federal hiring freeze

Shane O’Mara on a profound and humorous exploration of human consciousness

Scholars more likely to falsify or fabricate data if they 'can get away with it', researchers say

Carnival atmosphere at the London March for Science as events take place across the world

Critics call proposal for world-first professional recognition system ‘demented’

Academics shine light on contemporary research themes in classic book

British researchers no longer win the most grants for established scientists, having already fallen behind in early career category

Keeping the algorithms that encrypt our data secure is crucial, says Noel-Ann Bradshaw

Book of the week: sidelining its female workforce cost the UK primacy in a nascent IT industry, says John Gilbey

Shahidha Bari finds much to admire in a detailed exploration of self-injury through the ages

Steven Rose enjoys a philosopher’s deep dive with some uniquely intelligent company

Book of the week: Simon Underdown enjoys a stunning view of Darwin at work on his less celebrated classic

Country’s publications in high-quality journals decline in relative and absolute terms

Institutions need to be excellent across the board to attract leading researchers, analysis warns

Health and environmental agencies face savage reductions as defence spending soars

Environmental changes also change us but old and new ways of living offer hope, says Stephanie Bunn

Paul Bernal on whether we can simply dismiss privacy concerns in order to embrace the world of big data

Matthew Reisz considers gravitational waves, scientific authority and sexual differences

Rivka Isaacson on her meeting with British crystallographer Olga Kennard, one of five female structural biologists whose portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection

Who is the man who will take the top job in UK science?

Duke University’s Valerie Ashby says institutions must be more ‘intentional’ about finding ethnic minority PhD candidates

The inventor of the fuel cell deserves a biography, but more detail of his work and his life would be welcome, says Richard Joyner

Universities cannot wash their hands of responsibility for who is booked to speak on their premises, says Michael Marshall