Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work.

After a few dogged journalists, a small nonprofit pursuing Freedom of Information requests and an independent group of ...

Journal indexation cannot be the only appraisal of research performance. The evaluation system must prioritize impact-focused ...

Faced with more extreme weather events, communities may need to adapt to heightened risks from sea-level rise, flooding or ...

publishers pocket ever-growing revenues from journal subscriptions and article-processing fees with taxpayer-funded research dollars that could have otherwise supported science. (Some of that ...

Governments issue regulations with tremendous impact on the economy and on health practices. These regulations are based on published scientific research. But there is a crisis of irreproducibility ...

Two American virologists with former ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) argue that the lab’s recent research poses ...

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would ...

The Trump administration’s escalating assault on scientific infrastructure is not merely a domestic issue; it poses an ...

According to research published in the ACS partner journal Environment & Health, microplastics — particles from 1 to 62 ...

A new National Academies report recommends ways for the U.S. to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence in biotechnology ...

A Senate committee voted Thursday morning to advance Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump's pick to head the National ...