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This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as "miracles coming down from God." If that's true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.
Beijing joins initiative against 'vaccine nationalism' in contrast to US, which is not part of alliance.
COVID-19 has highlighted the need to work with researchers all around the world at the same time that it has also exposed the inequalities in the global research and knowledge system.
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel today welcomes seven experts as members of the Search Committee for the next President of the ERC.
In academia, decisions on promotions are influenced by the citation impact of the works published by the candidates. The authors examine whether the journal impact factor rank could be replaced with the relative citation ratio, an article-level measure of citation impact developed by the National Institutes of Health.
In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic - and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.
For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.
With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.
Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.
Public trust in a potential vaccine is under threat. Drug companies and their academic partners must disclose protocols and results data.
Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.
The argument that we have the power to deal with the dangers of social media on our own can come across as cruelly individualistic tech-apologia.
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.
Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video.
The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?
Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
In another candid interview, the NIAID director explains how he tries to counters White House optimism with "reality".
The US president's actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.
As the rush intensifies to find ways to treat and manage COVID-19, one thing is clear: researchers, along with their counterparts in industry and the health services, need unrestricted access to the research literature.
Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.
