Union-represented workers are walking out for an indefinite period of time after negotiations over their compensation and other issues stalled.

In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, many researchers are exploring their options with the open-source platform Mastodon.

All members of the scientific community must commit to taking the risks needed to change how research is shared and evaluated.

On average, researchers’ impact dropped by one-half to two-thirds over their careers.

An influential paper on amyloid protein and Alzheimer’s disease potentially fabricated data. Why did it take 16 years to flag?

The journal’s executive director speaks with The Scientist about what it hopes to accomplish with its unusual new publishing model.

For more than 50 years, the program has served as a pipeline to get more scholars of color into academic institutions.

The United States gets roughly an eighth of its tenure-track professors from just five institutions, according to an analysis of nearly 300,000 faculty.

Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health increasingly employ subjective and promotional language in describing research, a study finds.

The center oversaw programs such as the Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, many of which will continue.

A researcher’s existential crisis led to a scientific breakthrough.

Universities and institutes are preparing to terminate thousands of technically temporary researchers by next spring instead of granting them the permanent employment mandated by a 2013 labor law.

Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, numerous researchers have announced plans to either vacate or decline career opportunities in states where abortion is or will soon be illegal.

Two recent court rulings shine a light on the disturbing tactics used by some activists to target biomedical researchers who study animals.

A large coalition of colleges and universities aims to change hiring, promotion, and tenure practices to reward collaboration.

With the Russian army nearby, faculty at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine are trying to return to normal.

The launch of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability—the first new school at the university in 70 years—comes thanks to a $1.1 billion gift from a venture capitalist and his wife.

Hundreds of the school’s faculty, students, and trainees are protesting its consideration of David Sabatini, who left his previous posts after alleged sexual misconduct.

Texas A&M cited potential foreign interference when explaining why it shut down a jointly run modeling laboratory.