Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

Disadvantaged students struggle as private institutions offer discounts and community colleges hope for rebound.

Hayder Aljayyash was sentenced to 20 months after breaking into University of South Wales' systems.

Will the plethora review options for preprints usher in a new age of duplicate peer review?

A rigorous study finds that surgical masks are highly protective, but cloth masks fall short.

A sudden rule change by the Australian Research Council-to ban grant applications that cite preprint material-has deemed 32 early and mid-career researchers ineligible to receive critical funding.

Critics of scientific publishing had hoped for a bigger shake-up from the global crisis.

More than 80% of scientific papers stemming from Horizon 2020 funded projects were published in open access journals, according to the European Commission in a new report.

The drastic shake-up of the country's science system is intended to boost innovation, but there are concerns about political interference in the new centralized agency.

To deliver the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, researchers must rethink funding, global cooperation and how they communicate with policymakers. 

Grass-roots action against bad behaviour has spurred reform - and should keep going.

The space race is heating up, but many legal issues are still open to debate.

Space tourism began in 2001 with Italian-American millionaire Dennis Tito. Decades later, it's still a preserve of the rich and essentially white.

The European People's Party (EPP) is calling on the Commission and member states to fund emergency placements for Afghan researchers and academics at European higher education and research institutions. One of the EPP's lead MEPs, Christian Ehler, said scientists in Afghanistan risk being persecuted by the Taliban, after the islamist group took over the country when the US military and its allies pulled out.

Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.

Prof Paul Davies suggests viruses may form vital part of ecosystems on other planets

Uncritical and misinformed imitation of physics or biology is a misconception of collaboration.

The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?

Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people's lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.

These are my remarks from yesterday's UK Student Accommodation Forum on demand for higher education in 2021/22 and on, hosted by Unipol. The event also saw the launch of an excellent new paper on International Students and Factors Affecting Accommodation in the UK. When it comes to demand from home students, the naysayers were wrong in 2020 and […]

The Biden administration's first annual list of R&D priorities includes an emphasis on bolstering pandemic preparedness and climate mitigation efforts, strengthening domestic manufacturing, and incorporating equity considerations across federal programs.