Overview: Indigenous scholars led by Lydia Jennings have developed new guidelines to help ensure Indigenous peoples’ rights, knowledge and data sovereignty are respected in scientific research and sch...

The Migration Museum is partnering with five museums and galleries across the UK to launch a new programme bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of a series of...

Good Research is Open Research - so what's stopping us from making research more open? Join the conversation at EORC26 online!

Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

Scottish Funding Council integrity policy urges strict university misconduct reporting

“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."

The Ship of Theseus paradox asks, if you replace all the wood in a ship, is it still the same ship? Likewise, is it possible to change all the facts inside an article without altering its conclusio…

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

Nature, Published online: 17 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00498-9 The funding system needs fixing — but it’s not a ‘waste of time and money’

Apply for funding to undertake cutting-edge Metascience research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting research and development (R&D), including the impact of artificial intelligence (...

definition, categorization, and identification of QRPs. This is extremely valuable, because a fundamental prerequisite for the adequate evaluation and interv...

Recap: Exploring the ethical framework for obtaining materials from sentient animals 22 January 2026, 10:00-11:00 GMT On 22 January 2026, we hosted the third session of our Expert webinar series – pub...

Find out how to submit a contribution for for the 2026 Open Research Conference. This year our conference centers on UNESCO's "Recommendations for Open Science", reflecting our new institutional…

Cambridge University Press report calls for “fewer, higher-quality papers” as libraries face “disproportionate rising costs”

Financial pressures make protecting knowledge and policing researchers more difficult, says Nicola Searle

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

C&EN’s 2025 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Mona Minkara, looks at how chemists can solve problems in new ways

Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore