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In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic - and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.
Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video.
The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?
For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.
With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.
Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.
Public trust in a potential vaccine is under threat. Drug companies and their academic partners must disclose protocols and results data.
Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.
The argument that we have the power to deal with the dangers of social media on our own can come across as cruelly individualistic tech-apologia.
Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
In another candid interview, the NIAID director explains how he tries to counters White House optimism with "reality".
The US president's actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.
As the rush intensifies to find ways to treat and manage COVID-19, one thing is clear: researchers, along with their counterparts in industry and the health services, need unrestricted access to the research literature.
Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.
An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.
High publishing charges keep continent's scholars out of top journals, academics argue.
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.
The COVID-19 syndemic is entering its most dangerous phase. There is a mounting breakdown of trust. Not only between politicians and the public. But also among politicians and publics with science and scientists. This breach of faith with science is far more threatening.
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.
FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Shortcut to this page: https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols Version: 1.78, 1-Oct-2020 Click here to jump over the scientific & historical details and go straight to the recommendations, Click here for automatic translation into many la...
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.
Part one of a four part series on major barriers to equitable decision-making in hiring, review, promotion, and tenure processes that commonly result from biased thinking in academia. Part one delves into objective comparisons.
