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A bipartisan bill aims to increase the National Science Foundation’s budget over the next five years and form a new technology directorate.

Sykes sequenced famous ancient remains, such as Ötzi and Cheddar Man, and was one of the first researchers to use mitochondrial DNA to trace genetic lineages.

Scientists from countries with fewer resources are pushing collaborators from higher-income countries to shed biases and behaviors that perpetuate social stratification in the research community.

Reporting cases of misconduct in the context of federal science funding can be a daunting task. But mechanisms to support whistleblowers do exist.

The Retraction Watch team takes a look at the most important publishing mistakes this year.

Meet some of the people featured in the December 2020 issue of The Scientist.

Academics will soon be able to make articles freely available in Nature-branded journals for €9,500—with a discounted option available under a pilot program that provides review, but no guarantee of acceptance.

The state will take on additional debt to finance CIRM, which will now continue to fund stem cell research, training, and clinical trials.

While some academics have called for compensation for assessing other scientists’ work, publishers haven’t warmed to the idea.

Government leaders claim the reductions are necessary to free up assets to deal with COVID-19 and address corruption in research.

The changes, which affect the declarations authors have to sign and the peer-review process, have received a mixed response from the scientific community.

Several organizations suggest that a case against a University of Kansas professor is the latest example of the US government targeting researchers for their ethnicity.

More than 3,000 researchers have signed on to a petition that expresses concern over the agency’s 2021 application for the funding program, which emphasizes three areas of computational science and might further disadvantage underrepresented groups.

The members of a new advisory board to the NIH met for the first time and will weigh in on federal funding for grants that rely on donated tissue from abortions.

Four Chinese nationals have been charged with visa fraud after revelations that they sent information on the layout of US labs and research carried out by colleagues back to China.

Transgender scientists are seeing some success in advocating for standards that allow authors to change their names on previous work.

Pier Paolo Pandolfi left Harvard University last year following allegations of sexual harassment, and has since been accused of research misconduct.

Early career researchers face unique challenges when a senior collaborator becomes embroiled in allegations of scientific malpractice.

Pretending to be a javelin aficionado is one thing. Professing to have real insight into the ongoing pandemic is quite another.