Just a few years from now, herds of woolly 'mammoths' could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said it will cut its ties with Russia when its agreement with the country expires at the end of 2024.

Sarah Gagliano Taliun's mother tongue is English, science's lingua franca. Her move to a French-speaking university presented challenges and opportunities.

The study shows evidence that the Sustainable Development Goals have had largely a discursive influence and only limited transformative political impact.

Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries, such as how well vaccination protects against the condition.

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The U.S. is sunsetting research collaborations with Russia in response to its war against Ukraine, joining a coalition of countries that have already moved to restrict ties with research institutions affiliated with the Russian government.

Applied physicist would bring wealth of policy experience as successor to Eric Lander.

Experts say the country's strong scientific performance is likely to be sustained in the coming years.

EU efforts to reduce the east-west gap in research and innovation should be backed by investment and reforms in member states, the EU auditor says in a report reviewing funding schemes set up by the European Commission to help bridge the divide.

A report indicates that lots of houses in England could be lost to flooding in the coming decades.

The robotic spacecraft unravels the history of the our galaxy's evolution - and could identify habitable regions of the Milky Way

Springer Nature editors urge consideration of the potential harms of all research relating to human populations, not just that directly involving human participants.

The European Research Council (ERC) is set to introduce lump sum funding to its Advanced grants for experienced researchers starting in 2024.

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

After weeks of internal debate, the US government broadened its sanctions against Russia to expressly include scientific relations.

Research leaders have this week put their weight behind a manifesto calling for moves to make research careers more attractive in a bid to stop the brain drain away from science.

The results of the first national survey to investigate research integrity in Australia indicate broad support for mandatory research integrity training.

At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad.

Some British researchers who had secured Horizon Europe funding have already been told that their grants will be cancelled.

EU science ministers signed off an agreement backing research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions.

At least half a dozen UK-based researchers have already lost coordination roles in Horizon Europe consortia because of the failure of Brussels and London to agree UK association to the programme, with the true tally losing out on leadership positions likely much higher.

Over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has stepped up its scientific production and its investment in higher education.

Life scientists are often oblivious to the risk of creating deadly new pathogens that could escape from the lab, a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report has warned, as the body draws up new global safety guidelines.

The world has changed a lot since our last global survey of PhD students in 2019. This year's survey includes master's students for the first time.