Billions of dollars have been spent on researching Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicts more than six million Americans and is the fifth-leading cause of death among the nation’s elderly. Yet there is no cure, and the few treatments available show only modest evidence of slowing cognitive decline. Read more

Lack of cooperation from publishers blamed for failure of transparency service that many hoped could drive down prices Read more

Unprecedented hike in UK Research and Innovation minimum PhD stipend will seek to place it in line with national living wage Read more

India-based periodical disciplined by bibliographic group Crossref after sleuths claimed ‘sneaked references’ had been injected into metadata Read more

Scheduled review panels for National Science Foundation grant applications are on pause until Feb. 1. Some researchers believe the pause may be connected to the new administration’s anti-DEI crusade. Read more

Questions raised about institution’s research reputation as it seeks to reduce academics’ research hours to plug £20 million black hole Read more

White House directive to pause external communications causes chaos at America’s main science funder Read more

A new open review system called MetaROR aims to reform the “broken” peer review academic publishing process by allowing scholars to pre-publish their research for peers to review Read more

Scientists from the favoured areas raise the strongest objections Read more

Growth in research and development spending hit a 20-year high in higher ed, according to the latest data. Read more