A global early warning center in Berlin will use artificial intelligence to predict the next pandemic. But AI's already helped us fight COVID-19.

Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19.

After a fumbling start, the European Union overtook the United States in vaccinations last month.

Models of how the Earth could look in 250m years, with huge land masses and longer days, can help exoplanet hunters

With 70% of the EU population now fully vaccinated, European universities are planning to welcome students back to lecture halls and seminar rooms for the 2021-22 academic year, after long months of disruption and distance learning.

The largest-ever independent gathering of interest groups, thought-leaders, science advisors to governments and global institutions, researchers, academics, communicators and diplomats is taking place in Montreal and online.

Several state legislatures have taken steps to restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender adolescents. That goes against medical guidelines.

Some females found to have evolved to have bright plumage, which seems to protect against male aggression, study suggests.

Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine.

Inventor teams with women represent 16% of filed patents, yet are more likely than male teams to create women's health products.

EU officials are urging Australia and New Zealand to associate to Horizon Europe, publicly telling them how welcome they would be - but it's not clear if the feeling is mutual.

New research points to growing participation of Western Balkans researchers in EU academic exchange programmes, as the EU takes steps to welcome countries in the region as associate members of the Horizon Europe.

The Australian Research Council's decision to reject early career funding applications that mention preprints is hopelessly outdated, say scientists.

If SUV drivers were a nation, they would rank seventh in the world for carbon emissions.

As temperatures rise, violence and aggression go up while focus and productivity decline. The well off can escape to cool spaces; the poor cannot.

The debate over whether number lines are innate or learned obscures a more fundamental question: Why do we map numbers to space in the first place?

Whatever Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats.

How much more work can we pile on researchers?

New analysis finds chemicals tested on animals in moisturisers, lipsticks, hair conditioner and sunscreen, despite ban.

Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemic.