Trump's experience is a world away from the stressful waiting game most patients wade through after a positive test.

The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.

For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.

With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.

Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.

Public trust in a potential vaccine is under threat. Drug companies and their academic partners must disclose protocols and results data.

Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.

Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.

As coronavirus wreaks havoc on existing structures, we take a look at some visions for cities of the future - and how they hold up

An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the second major US funder to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication.

A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up selection of the most effective shots.

Research ministers have agreed to more aggressively police foreign participation in the EU's research programme, adding a new provision to Horizon Europe that is aimed primarily at preventing China and the US from getting access to sensitive European research.

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows.

It's not R. But unless you’ve been reading scientific journals, you’re less likely to have encountered k, the measure of the dispersion of the virus.

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the "infodemic."

A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.