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French Study of over 22m People Finds Vaccines Cut Severe Covid Risk by 90%

French Study of over 22m People Finds Vaccines Cut Severe Covid Risk by 90%

Largest study of its kind also finds vaccines appear to protect against worst effects of Delta variant

Star Trek Star William Shatner Ready to Boldly Go into Space

Star Trek Star William Shatner Ready to Boldly Go into Space

The actor who played Captain Kirk in the classic TV show is due to launch above Earth for real within hours.

Facial Expressions Tell All (if You Can Read Them)

Facial Expressions Tell All (if You Can Read Them)

If the eyes are the window to your soul, the face is the frame. Facial expressions may say more about you than you realize. Even neutral expressions do.

Covid's Forgotten Hero: The Untold Story Of The Scientist Whose Breakthrough Made The Vaccines Possible

Covid's Forgotten Hero: The Untold Story Of The Scientist Whose Breakthrough Made The Vaccines Possible

Without Ian MacLachlan’s innovative delivery system, Moderna and Pfizer couldn’t safely get their mRNA vaccines into your cells. So why does hardly anyone acknowledge the Canadian biochemist’s seminal contributions - or pay a dime in royalties?

How Local Communities Helped Polar Scientists During the Pandemic

How Local Communities Helped Polar Scientists During the Pandemic

Erica Gillis describes the strong connections with residents that helped her colleagues keep working when they couldn't travel.

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Timon Oefelein Interviews Gerald Beasley

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Timon Oefelein Interviews Gerald Beasley

In Part 1 of this pair of posts, Timon Oefelein interviews Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, about how librarians can support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain Antibody Evolution After MRNA Vaccination - Nature

Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain Antibody Evolution After MRNA Vaccination - Nature

Results suggest that boosting vaccinated individuals with currently available mRNA vaccines will increase plasma neutralizing activity but may not produce antibodies with equivalent breadth to those obtained by vaccinating convalescent individuals.

Real-world Data Show That Filters Clean COVID-causing Virus from Air

Real-world Data Show That Filters Clean COVID-causing Virus from Air

An inexpensive type of portable filter efficiently screened SARS-CoV-2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air.

Publication Outperformance Among Global South Researchers: An Analysis of Individual-Level and Publication-Level Predictors of Positive Deviance

Publication Outperformance Among Global South Researchers: An Analysis of Individual-Level and Publication-Level Predictors of Positive Deviance

Research and development are central to economic growth, and a key challenge for countries of the global South is that their research performance lags behind that of the global North. Yet, among Southern researchers, a few significantly outperform their peers and can be styled research "positive deviants" (PDs). This paper asks: who are those PDs, what are their characteristics and how are they able to overcome some of the challenges facing researchers in the global South? 

Citation Patterns Between Impact-Factor and Questionable Journals

Citation Patterns Between Impact-Factor and Questionable Journals

One of the most fundamental issues in academia today is understanding the differences between legitimate and questionable publishing. This study's findings show that neither the impact factor of citing journals nor the size of cited journals is a good predictor of the number of citations to the questionable journals.

'Elegant' Catalysts That Tell Left from Right Scoop Chemistry Nobel

'Elegant' Catalysts That Tell Left from Right Scoop Chemistry Nobel

Benjamin List and David MacMillan share the award for developing cheap, environmentally friendly organic catalysts.

How the World's Biggest Brain Maps Could Transform Neuroscience

How the World's Biggest Brain Maps Could Transform Neuroscience

Scientists around the world are working together to catalogue and map cells in the brain. What have these huge projects revealed about how it works?

The Experience of Good Metadata: Linking Metadata to Research Impacts - The Scholarly Kitchen

The Experience of Good Metadata: Linking Metadata to Research Impacts - The Scholarly Kitchen

What do we really know about the linkages between good metadata and positive, productive user experiences with scholarly journals?

Research Lobbies Renew Push for Say in ERA Governance

Research Lobbies Renew Push for Say in ERA Governance

Sixteen research and higher education organisations have written an open letter calling on the European Commission to allow them to appoint representatives to the European Research Area (ERA) forum, the body that will establish the governance and policy agenda of the EU's revamped single market for research.