Researchers in the country have often shown creativity and resilience under threat. These strengths will be key to the future of science in Ukraine following Russia's invasion.

A new study provide scientific evidence assessing how effective governments will be at implementing their commitments to the agreement that will reduce CO2 emissions causing climate change.

Fed up with what they saw as inaction by policymakers, three climate change scientists called on their colleagues to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting process. 

Anna Severin explains how her team used machine learning to try to assess the quality of thousands of reviewers' reports.

With countries around the world increasingly focusing on problems at home, the urgent need to reconstruct Ukraine's research and educational infrastructure must not be forgotten.

The European Universities initiative was conceived to develop higher education across the EU, with a tight focus on students and teaching. Higher education institutions from different countries were invited to form alliances and bid for Erasmus + funds to develop joint curricula and boost mobility. But innovation and entrepreneurship increasingly appear in the alliance playbook, particularly when the partners are close to the market.

The research funder's admission has been largely welcomed, but experts say many institutions need to do much more to implement anti-racism pledges.

Postmodern ideas have gained the status of absolute truths. Relativism, selectively appropriated into the language of both left and right politics, has metamorphosed into dogma. As oversimplification distorts communication, public trust in scientific fact has eroded. Could renewed ideas of objectivity be a way out?

Older adults, immunocompromised and the very young are paying the price for the mask-less freedom of many

Being open about being gay allows me to reach my full intellectual potential.

Spain is about to overhaul its research career structures, after the Congress of Deputies approved the final version of a reform to the country's 2011 science, technology and innovation law last week.

A Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals Community of Interest Network is launching! An interview with facilitators Laura Ansley and Dawn Durante about the group and its focus --and how it's meeting a clear need.

The movement towards open-access scientific publishing got an historic boost this month, with the White House ordering an end to publishers putting most federally funded research behind paywalls.

Genome analysis shows that most Australian rabbits are descendants of wild rabbits shipped to near Melbourne in 1859.

Prehistoric stone circle and 11th-century church uncovered as country's reservoirs hit 36% of normal capacity

The article analyzes what happens when governments use predictive modeling to allocate critical resources.

Sustainable use is when biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are maintained while contributing to human wellbeing.

Saying no is a skill - and practising it improved our science.

As everyone shifts back into gear after the summer break, we have put together a list of research and innovation topics coming up over the next weeks and months, to help you sift through the deluge of announcements due in September and beyond.

The policy, hailed by researchers as “transformational,” will be fully in place by 2026 and make publicly financed research available immediately at no cost.