Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.

Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.

To promote effective sharing, we must create an enduring link between the people who generate data and its future uses, urge Heather H. Pierce and colleagues.

The British Journal of Anaesthesia's unusual experiment is designed to broaden replicability efforts beyond just methods and results.

All disciplines should follow the geosciences and demand best practice for publishing and sharing data.

The region already hosts some of the world's leading scientific countries, and some of its smaller states are quickly catching up.

Atomic Age would mark the start of the current geologic time unit, if proposal receives final approval.

On the eve of the European Union's parliamentary elections, a special issue examines the prospects for science across the region.

The European Union's cross-border collaborative programmes offer lessons for the rest of the world.

Proactive, cosmopolitan and open, the European Union is filling a leadership void on the global stage.

Language, cultural differences and expense are common downsides in some European countries, but researchers who land in Europe love the opportunities to learn new techniques, work in a diverse setting and polish their confidence.

Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got the most votes.

Support from mainstream diversity initiatives would create a virtuous circle of visibility and benefit science for all, urges Jon Freeman.

The first international meeting on postgraduate mental health was an important step, but much more is needed to solve academia's crisis.

Countries in southeast Asia, Africa and South America lead the way on free-to-read literature.

The country's major funding agency says the tool reduces the time it takes to find referees.

Expert advice on how to prepare a perfect funding application

Open science can lead to greater collaboration, increased confidence in findings and goodwill between researchers.

Grant reviewers favour 'broad' words used more often by men, but proposals using those terms don't produce better research.

Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules.

Threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control. The four horsemen of the reproducibility apocalypse being: publication bias, low statistical power, P-value hacking and HARKing (hypothesizing after results are known).

Networking is a crucial skill for all scientists. Ruth Gotian offers tips for those who struggle to make it work.