The world's premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy - until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

But auditing such efforts will be difficult, while unintended consequences are always a risk, warns Athene Donald.

Unequal childcare burden blamed for fall in share of published research by women since schools shut, but funding bodies look to alleviate career impact.

Following an intense period of consultation and co-design, we are excited to unveil our first wave of projects, which will run for the remainder of RoRI's pilot phase (until autumn 2021). We are also delighted to announce our partners, who will be collaborating in the design and delivery of these projects. 

The research was the target of a conspiracy theory about the origin of the new coronavirus.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

Latest action sows anxiety and confusion across the US scientific workforce.

European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.

Covid-19 has slashed donations to medical research funding, charities warn Boris Johnson

ALLEA has launched a task force dedicated to open science and chaired by Luke Drury (Royal Irish Academy).

More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.