Harvard University says it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as a condition for it to receive almost $9 billion in funding.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

La orden ejecutiva indica que las "narrativas divisivas" deben ser purgadas de los museos y centros de investigación operados por el Instituto Smithsonian en Estados Unidos.

“Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private

Becky Burke, 28, has spent 10 days in a facility in Washington State and is desperate to come home.

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To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.

Repositories for academic papers often do not reflect retractions and corrections to published papers, can this be resolved?

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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But numbers remain steady for researchers who commit scientific misconduct.

The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data, Stuart Macdonald …

Biochemist Babita Paudel strives to change Nepal’s standing as the Asian country with the lowest participation of women in science.

Generative artificial-intelligence illustrations can be helpful, but fall short as scientific records.

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Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.

The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.

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The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

My glass of optimism is usually full. But my glass is leaking now, or maybe it’s broken? The realities of the new political landscape have cast its shadow on the future of academia.

Institutions that don’t respond to sexual-assault allegations are failing to protect people who could be targeted in future, says Nicole Bedera.

Published in 1963, Thompson’s influential The Making of the English Working Class quickly led to questions about the nature of the American working class.

In recent months the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers,...

A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down.

The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives.

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

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Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

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The freeze’s effect on research is still unclear, but scientists fear ‘incalculable’ damage.

A new study led by an international research team, including Dr Fabian Braesemann from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, shows how Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping...

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