If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?

Recent advances are bringing cancer vaccines much closer to reality, giving patients another weapon in their arsenal of cancer treatments, according to Dr Madiha Derouazi, CEO of Amal Therapeutics and one of three winners of the 2020 EU Prize for Women Innovators.

In the world of scientific research today, there’s a revolution going on – over the last decade or so, scientists across many disciplines have been seeking to improve the workings of science and its methods. To do this, scientists are largely following one of two paths: the movement for reproducibility and the movement for open science. Both movements aim to create centralized archives for data, computer code and other resources, but from there, the paths diverge. 

The government and vice-chancellors have a duty of care, yet in too many colleges, Covid security is mere hygiene theatre.

Months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, some people are still battling crushing fatigue, lung damage and other symptoms of 'long COVID'.

Gongs also awarded for research into vibrating earthworms, French kissing and bellowing alligators.

Leading academics respond to government plan to end link between charter mark and research funding, amid fears that equality issues will be sidelined.

Mother in Science is launching the first global survey to measure the impact of having children on career progression, scientific productivity and career choices of women in STEMM, and to identify the specific motherhood-related factors driving gender imbalance in STEMM employment.

The editor of Science has abandoned staid academic-speak to take on falsehoods in the White House-decorum be damned.

The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) is pleased to announce the formal launch of our organization.

Open letter flags results that appear to be duplicated and calls for access to the underlying data on the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for widespread use.

Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.

Researchers stress need for antenatal care, as emerging data link disrupted pregnancy services to increase in stillbirths.

The Open Access Days are the central annual conference on Open Access and Open Science in the German-speaking world and will take place from 15 to 17 September 2020 as an online conference.

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Termini from UCLA presents a list of 100 Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America that all researchers can look to for inspiration.

The unexpected atmospheric detection of phosphine, a smelly gas made by microbes on Earth, could spark a revolution in astrobiology.

The proportion of research outputs published in open access journals or made available on other freely-accessible platforms has increased over the past two decades, driven largely by funder mandates, institutional policies, grass-roots advocacy, and changing attitudes in the research community.