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A man in Hong Kong was found to be reinfected with COVID-19, but what that means for vaccines and immunity is unclear
When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old...
US President Donald Trump reportedly is considering skipping regulatory steps to get out a vaccine.
A new star has been born on the academic Nordic journal scene: the Journal of Digital Social Research, launched last year. We talked to the editor-in-chief Simon Lindgren from Umeå University.
As the world wearies of trying to suppress the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many of us are wondering what the future will look like as we try to learn to live with it.
Saliva could be the key to a faster, cheaper, safer test.
Most antibody tests are useful only for large population surveys, diagnosis in certain children or when initial diagnostic testing fails, according to an expert panel.
Authors with a published eLife paper can now enrich their work with embedded code blocks and computed outputs to make their results more transparent, interactive and reproducible.
How the words we use have evolved over the past 175 years.
Letting the rich pay for science that interests them is a bad idea—even if they aren’t convicted sex offenders.
Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) set out to examine whether the gender of applicants and peer reviewers and other factors influence peer review of grant proposals submitted to a national funding agency.
Businesses and entrepreneurs are racing to deploy blockchain technology against all manner of problems, and perceived opportunities.
Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won't it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.
"We don't … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we're just scared because we know it could," one student says
In an open letter to the European Commission and the European Research Council, the President of CESAER emphasises the full support for open access to scientific publications and the implementation of Plan S in Horizon Europe
The Trump administration this week blocked the Food and Drug Administration from regulating a broad swath of laboratory tests, including for the coronavirus, in a move strongly opposed by the agency. The new policy stunned many health experts and laboratories because of its timing, several months into a pandemic.Some public health experts worry defective tests could end up on the market, but others cheer the change, saying it is long overdue.
China’s science ministry is set to introduce its most comprehensive rules so far for dealing with research misconduct. The measures, which come into effect next month, outline what constitute violations and appropriate punishments. But critics say that enforcement will continue to be a problem.
A German university is offering “idleness grants” to applicants who are seriously committed to doing sweet nothing.This indolence project is a serious look at societal values of success versus sustainability, says Hamburg arts college.
Women's journal submission rates fell as their caring responsibilities jumped due to COVID-19. Without meaningful interventions, the trend is likely to continue.
And why they also try to "feminize science," labeling experts as shrill or emotional.
Women leaders around the world have had considerably more success in slowing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and two economists based in the United Kingdom can now explain why.
We want to hear how researchers and students are managing the start of term.
Arseniy Neskhodimov named overall winner of photography prize for his series Prozac.
Kaoru Sakabe is academic publishing’s version of an in-house detective. In 2017, she and editors at the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) conducted a pilot study looking for image manipulation in accepted papers. When 10% of papers came back with a possible issue, the team was shocked.
Since Germany has been trying for years to reach such a contract with Elsevier, it is worth comparing it with the two transformative contracts with Wiley and Springer Nature in Germany, which were reached and coordinated by Project DEAL.
This study sheds light on the various determinants of Articel Processing Charges in Open Access. The results strongly support the hypothesis that academia runs the risk not to take advantage of the cost-reducing opportunities inherent to digitization via a hybrid oa-strategy.
This paper presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the presence of 12 kinds of altmetric events for nearly 12.3 million Web of Science publications published between 2012 and 2018.
