Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been 'strangely silent' about masculinity in academia.

How the world's greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability. But despite the benefits, barriers to reviewing and curating preprints remain.

Analysis at Dutch university suggests researchers are not reporting a large number of animal experiments.

Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures to keep from falling apart.

A week-long event aimed to shine a spotlight on Black contributions to cancer medicine, research and patient advocacy.

A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.

The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), initiated in 2009, is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project that runs on open-source software. It captures news and comment on open access (OA) to research in every academic field and region of the world.

Cambridge University study also suggests older people less likely to believe coronavirus misinformation.

A case in Nevada has spurred new concerns that people who have recovered from the infection may still be vulnerable. That's unlikely, experts say.

Should academic science reconsider the definition of success?

Scientists identify a species that appears to absorb potentially lethal UV radiation and emit blue light.

Study instead suggests people are initially attracted to those with similar features to themselves.

A camera-trap image of an Amur tiger takes the grand prize at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020.

Bar-tailed godwit flies more than 12,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days.

Prizewinners developed auction formats used in markets for electricity, carbon credits, and radio spectrum allocation.

Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.