Six years after a statue of Cecil Rhodes was toppled, students and staff at the South African university are still working to improve equity and representation.

A new technology developed by researchers from the University of Zürich enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are needed. The innovation could reduce the side effects of cancer therapy and may hold the solution to better delivery of Covid-related therapies directly to the lungs.

Global migration flows show a profound diversification of migrants' groups in recent years. Their patterns of nationality, ethnicity, language, age, gender and legal status are growing ever more complex and migrants with 'new diversity' traits live in cities alongside people from previous immigration waves. Prof. Steven Vertovec's comparative study helps understand how old and new waves of migrants meet, mix, interact and get integrated into a given society.

Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, the World Health Organization says.

For this grad student, speaking publicly about mental health was scary but worth it

Hundreds of bits of rocket, space stations and satellites have returned to Earth since the 1960s. They are often dumped at sea. How sustainable is that?

Approaches include tailored nanoparticles, chimeric proteins, virus cocktails.

Former top World Bank economist Branko Milanović is afraid that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened the wealth divide. Those who have profited most from the crisis, he fears, have broken their pledge to help countries in need.

In the United States, the analysis estimates, 905,000 people have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic.

The announcement sought to clarify the surprise recommendation that vaccinated people could largely stop wearing masks in most cases.

Highlights, press releases and speeches

The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.

Indonesia has dismantled its science ministry and created an overarching national research agency, a move some scientists worry will strengthen political control over research in a country where academic freedom is already under pressure and politics have taken an authoritarian turn.

Provision in Endless Frontier Act would tighten U.S. oversight of foreign sources of funding.

A recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar on global open access shared perspectives from Latin America, Asia and Africa.

The publisher will launch five new journals, and has introduced a new business model that aims to spread the cost of publishing more fairly.