Let's not beat around the bush: science policy is political.

Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.

University and College Union general secretary says sector leaders who focused on turnout were 'not listening to a consistent message that staff have been delivering to them'.

With a push from students and alumni, the university faced up to a legacy of support for eugenics. As it renames buildings and programmes, can its story serve as a model for others?

Women often face institutional and cultural barriers to success in science. These resources aim to highlight and advise on how women and their allies can grow their research careers.

As the pandemic continues, researchers are coming to terms with what they've learnt and lost so far, finds Nature's global survey.

This post is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry. 

Scientists who worked on the original UN climate convention doubt that COP26 will deliver for low income countries.

Puerto Rico has an underfunded health care system, high levels of poverty and its infrastructure remains devastated by a major hurricane that swept through the island in 2017.

Ancient rock forms suggest world's first stable cratons rose above sea level more than 3bn years ago

The first female astronaut of color was African-American Mae Jemison - 30 years after the first men and white women flew in space.

Agency says funding issues, along with delays tied to Bezos legal challenge, will push back first landing in a half century

The latest bounty of 35 events features oddball black holes and a miniature neutron star.

At first, no one looked twice at the new variant. Detected in South Africa in January 2021, the novel coronavirus lineage, called C.1, appeared similar to other variants. 

After years of bickering, Washington and Brussels appear to be patching up a disagreement over American researchers participating in the EU's big R&D programmes.

Hundreds of junk-science papers have been retracted from reputable journals after fraudsters used 'special issues' to manipulate the publication process. And the problem is growing.

Influential US Astro2020 panel recommends a space-based telescope operating from ultraviolet to near infra-red to be launched in the mid-2040s.