Australian scientists develop a microscope that works with 35% more clarity, raising hope for improvements in medical imaging.

Europe’s research labs scrambled to make the best use of their resources and offered remote access for researchers during the pandemic. Some of these changes are set to become a permanent feature.

Nature examines arguments that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China, and the science behind them.

Professor Heino Falcke discusses how our discovery of the black hole feeds our hunger for looking further, for collaboration, and for hope.

Scientific publishing needs to stop treating error-checking as a slightly inconvenient side note and make it a core part of academic research.

A cookie-cutter strategy to reform science will cause resentment, not improvement.

Postdocs and PhD students around the world require professional training to prepare them for a possible career outside academia, finds the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Discrimination and harassment violate scientific integrity – but the damage they do goes beyond that.

Professor Tim Whitmarsh looks at the origins of classics as an academic discipline and how it is studied in the 21st century.

There are significant gaps in what teachers in Ghana know about ozone depletion and climate change, even though these subjects are in the science curriculum.

Lake Constance forms a natural border between Germany, Austria and Switzerland - and its ecosystem is changing. Newly arrived aggressive residents include spiny-cheek crayfish, zebra mussels and killer shrimp. Will they displace native species?

This evidence snapshot represents just the tip of the iceberg of the many studies of climate change that have seen climate change transition from a scientific curiosity to a global environmental, socioeconomic, political, and technological grand challenge.

Pressing global challenges including the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, food security and future global health crises will require collaboration.

Juno passed within 645 miles of Ganymede, the closest any spacecraft has come to the moon since 2000.

Researchers from Israel, Switzerland, Britain and other non-EU countries may be allowed to join the EU's quantum and space research projects, under a deal between representatives of member states and the European Commission reached this week. The agreement could end months of uncertainties around international participation in sensitive R&D projects in Horizon Europe, the EU's new €95.5 billion R&D programme.

Move comes after concerns from diplomats that Britain was being treated as if it posed a similar risk to China.

Federal spending on research is about to get a boost | United States

Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects.

This Practical Guide provides guidance to ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of research data, and supports organisations to provide a framework in which researchers can share their output in a sustainable way.

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