Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the second major US funder to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication.

A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up selection of the most effective shots.

Research ministers have agreed to more aggressively police foreign participation in the EU's research programme, adding a new provision to Horizon Europe that is aimed primarily at preventing China and the US from getting access to sensitive European research.

It's not R. But unless you’ve been reading scientific journals, you’re less likely to have encountered k, the measure of the dispersion of the virus.

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the "infodemic."

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows.

A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.

Even as faculty members are given more time to meet a deadline for tenure, many say they are getting less work done because of child care needs.

New antigen tests will help tackle a dangerous inequality, says Charlotte Summers, lecturer in intensive care medicine at the University of Cambridge

Two recent research efforts looked into the southern alligator lizard, which has one of nature's more extreme mating strategies.

Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation and scientific expertise, say legal scholars.

Techniques such as inclusive teaching can inspire “hyperpersistence”. 

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.

Can biodiversity be preserved if the most important countries in the world causing climate change do not sign the pledge?

28 September marks the first celebration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information since its proclamation by the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, is of crucial importance.

China blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization. As a result, the Foundation’s application for observer status has been suspended and will be reconsidered at a future WIPO meeting.

One of the UK’s leading public health experts has warned that universities should be two-thirds empty in order to prevent massive spikes in coronavirus infections across campuses.