policy

Millions are pumped into research on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and high-profile arrests are made amid demonstrations fighting the construction of a new pipeline.

Data and other files connected to the work of climatologist Michael Mann have been released to a conservative think tank that sued to gain access.

America's key federal biomedical research agency officially releases its new policy on conflicts of interest.

New draft policies for safeguarding government research from political influence—and protecting those who bring such misconduct to light—could be improved, according to advocacy groups.

The federal agency should reduce harmful nitrogen emissions by 25 percent in the next two decades, a new report says.

A new study reveals that African American researchers are 10 percent less likely to receive funding from the federal agency than their white peers.

The US federal agency issues draft rules to guide medical device makers and those hoping to register biomarkers.

The social media site enforces its rule that pages should allow social interaction through comments, even on drug company pages.

Advocacy groups say the University of Virginia is releasing too much of its climate researcher's documents.

The government says regulatory requirements for generic biological therapies will have to be tailored to the treatment in question.

Europe’s anti-fraud office has launched an investigation into potential conflicts of interest at the EU’s drug approval agency.

An initiative that would require universities to post their researchers' industry ties online has faltered.

The bill to raise the debt ceiling and reduce the deficit would slash billions of dollars for basic scientific and medical research.

John Marburger became a lightning rod for criticism that the Bush administration had politicized climate change science and human embryonic stem cell research.

Pro-evolution bumper stickers and emblems are being removed from the cars of biologists in Florida.

Administrators have taken over US universities, and they’re steering institutions of higher learning away from the goal of serving as beacons of knowledge.

In Chapter 6, "Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University," author Benjamin Ginsberg describes the perils of pursuing scholarship and teaching in the industrial environment of today's American institutions of higher learning.

A UK parliamentary panel says peer review is still valuable, but should be supplemented by open review processes, preprint servers, and online repositories.

A US judge dismisses a case against federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.

A UK panel puts forth guidelines for research that use experimental animals harboring human cells and tissues.