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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.
The Swiss National Science Foundation's 'narrative' template seeks evidence of applicants' wider contributions to science.
Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT grads, has transformed a John Deere into the world's first zero-emission, ammonia-powered tractor.
Discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions
A collaboration between scientists and Native American tribes finds tree density in parts of the Klamath Mountains is at a record high, and at risk of serious wildfires.
Member states are set to adopt a position backing research assessment reform in Europe - but they'll stress that any reforms must take into account the diversity of research systems in the EU, according to a draft document seen by Science|Business. Research ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Friday to sign off Council conclusions for research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions.
The UK is working on a "bigger, better" rival to the European Research Council as part of an alternative to the Horizon Europe, in response to growing fears that the country will not associate to the framework programme.
As eLife moves towards a 'publish, review, curate' model that puts preprints first, the two initiatives will work together to promote diversity in open scholarly review.
In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle -- from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.
Firing of funding agency board alarms research sector.
The word "bioethics" dates only to 1927, and the subject, as an academic discipline, is only about 50 years old, but the ethical questions that accompany scientific discovery are ancient.
At the end of June, leaders of seven of the world's wealthiest economies will meet in Germany. We urge that they move forward quickly and collaboratively on a focused set of R&D initiatives to help solve some of the world's most urgent problems - by working together. At stake is the health and prosperity of millions, and the strength of all liberal democracies.
Environmental sustainability provides a clear route to prosperity and well-being, and people in power need to take notice.
A coalition of research funders has been advocating for free, unrestricted access to publications since 2018. The SNSF is now joining them and adapting its Open Access requirements.
The country has been increasing research funding for decades, but its rigid, time-bound approach to research assessment is stifling basic science.
This article explores why the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal Parliament were reluctant to follow the majority views of the scientific epidemiological community at the beginning of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how 'like us' monkeys are
New framework aims to improve inclusion and ethics in global research collaborations amid wider efforts to end exploitative practices.
Leipzig researchers have found an enzyme that rapidly breaks down PET, the most widely produced plastic in the world. It might just eat your old tote bags.
Vice-chancellors ask both sides to work together to save the UK's role in a multi-billion-pound scheme.
A wave of departures, many of them by mid-career scientists, calls attention to widespread discontent in universities.
The FAIR Data Principles are being rapidly adopted by many research institutes and funders worldwide. This study assesses the awareness and attitudes of clinical researchers and research support staff regarding data FAIRification.
This article studies international citation and text similarity networks across 150 fields and find that some countries increasingly receive more citations despite researching similar topics as others.
A multidisciplinary approach is required to understand, address, and recover from pandemics, and social scientific disciplines are central to this.
The ingenuity of scientists helped accelerate the recovery from COVID-19. In close cooperation with society and policy-makers, it can lead the way to the future.
Latest effort would spend billions on a few universities, but skeptics give it long odds.
Firm launches 'healthier world' accord in Davos and speaks to other drugmakers about similar steps
