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The entanglement of the university and tech worlds faces increased scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Could joint positions in industry and academia offer a workable and ethically defensible way forward? David Matthews reports

Academic questions whether new committee should be hosted by UK Research and Innovation

Information Commissioner¡¯s Office expresses concern about academics using data gathered for research purposes for commercial gain

Commons Science and Technology Committee expresses concerns that use of non-disclosure agreements could allow errant scholars to reoffend elsewhere

Campaigners fear a huge increase in EU military research spending will lead to development of autonomous weapons

Academics establish deal with social network that will allow ¡®insider¡¯ scholars to filter data given to researchers

NAS calls for US lawmakers to bring change also brings warning that crisis talk may ultimately ¡®stifle frontier discoveries¡¯

Emma Briant defends actions over exchanges with key figures from Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica parent

Despite errors exaggerating results by factor of 10, Adam Perkins says findings remain ¡®statistically significant¡¯

The Cambridge Analytica controversy flags up the ethical perils of research with Big Data ¨C especially when it has commercial potential, says John Holmwood 

Robotics experts cancel boycott after KAIST denies developing autonomous weapons

¡®If we want to do more things for society, we can¡¯t do it by working more than 60 or 70 hours a week,¡¯ Rolf Tarrach tells annual conference

Leading academics fear research at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology could be used to develop autonomous armaments

Scientists reject the ¡®crisis narrative¡¯ as an inflammatory distraction from bigger issues

University has distanced itself from controversial researcher, but critic argues that it has failed to live up to own ethics code

An expanding research misconduct investigation has stretched its net from the chilly Baltic to an idyllic Queensland island and the grasslands of Saskatchewan

Social scientists¡¯ scepticism about research oversight also relates to the curiously bad press it gets in Western literature, writes Katarzyna Kaczmarska 

Ethics modules ordered after warnings from students¡¯ union that misconduct is on the rise

Mathematicians ¨C and, indeed, other scholars ¨C who cooperate with intelligence agencies face a moral dilemma knowing that their research could well be applied in unethical ways, says Michael Harris

Senior MP says Sam Gyimah's failure to answer questions about research integrity may lead scholars to conclude area is 'not a ministerial priority'

Australian academic accused of copying statements from Wikipedia and other journal articles without attribution in court

Survey finds that most research organisations do not have a policy on use of metrics

New injection of cash for San Francisco Declaration on responsible metrics hopes to move initiative from words to action

The broad trends in AI may be unstoppable, but we must find better ways of directing and regulating them, argues Toronto¡¯s Mark Kingwell

Technology behind Bitcoin is not just hype, say advocates, but could prevent data tampering and improve reproducibility

University of Paris-Saclay will incorporate ethical considerations into research on emerging technologies 

Junior researchers also more likely to feel they have to give credit to colleagues who made minimal contributions

Southern Illinois University under investigation for medical school researcher¡¯s involvement with controversial herpes vaccine trial

Two-thirds of researchers have been slighted by seniors on authorship issues, THE poll reveals

Six out of 10 among 278 anonymous respondents admit to at least one incident of misconduct

Advancing capabilities of stem cells could mean researchers run into legal difficulties once more, European academies warn

UK researcher who travelled to predatory conference in Denmark calls for greater awareness of problem

Why do smart scholars fall for dodgy conferences, asks Jack Grove

New metric measures how reliable scientific claims turn out to be ¨C but calculating it could be an enormous task

Omissions make it harder to find data, report says

Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs

Scholar returning to homeland from US to lead university speaks of his concerns

Analysis reveals extent of reward system for international publications, which could be distorting scientific incentives

Top academic claims universities have created 'factories' for junk science papers because of misguided funding system

Task force established by government to explore UK open-data landscape calls for greater efforts to ensure data quality 

Academics investigating militarism and war must explore their own assumptions as well as those of their societies, event hears

Academics and journal editors call for creation of national registries of research integrity officers

Government taking reports ¡®extremely seriously¡¯ and seeking ¡®additional briefing¡¯

Changing academic environment prompts rethink of globally influential employment support guidelines 

Conference hears conflicting views on how to stamp out fraud in research

Stephan Lewandowsky warns that academics can ¡®lose control¡¯ of their data and see it used as ¡®political propaganda¡¯

South African minister says many collaborations amount to little more than ¡®visits¡¯

Despite all that¡¯s been done to improve doctoral study, horror stories keep coming. Here three students relate PhD nightmares while two academics advise on how to ensure a successful supervision

Study outlines how publishers¡¯ guidelines led to adoption of positive research practices

Objections to co-authorship with juniors display a misguided sense of ethics, say Mark Hayter and Roger Watson

Taylor and Francis move to replace editor and withdraw his paper threatens ¡®scientific integrity¡¯, critics claim

Government announces new centre in the wake of scandal at National Taiwan University

Code of conduct frames non-publication of unexpected results as an issue of research integrity

Interviewing a Mafia researcher made John Elmes consider how scholars should study volatile groups

New document sets 'benchmark' for others to follow, according to research policy expert

Author of new research says journals are ¡®not doing¡¯ enough to combat the phenomenon

Jeffrey Beall¡¯s blacklist of predatory publishers has disappeared, and so too should ideas about ¡®good¡¯ and ¡®bad¡¯ journals, argues Martin Parker

Holly Else explores the emotional, reputational and practical barriers to correcting mistakes

James McCrostie was shocked to discover the extent of ¡®predatory conferences¡¯, but even more shocked by those abetting them

New analysis reveals importance of old university networks for advancement