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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'.
The aim of the study is not to compare and assess the success of countries’ key Covid policy responses, but rather to compare the various ways in which evidence has been marshalled and applied.
The editors of the Lancet Group examined The Lancet's peer-review processes to identify ways of further reducing risks of research and publication misconduct.
Gongs also awarded for research into vibrating earthworms, French kissing and bellowing alligators.
Getting rid of harmful papers is a vital step toward reestablishing readers' trust. Next, publishers should target articles that are flawed in other ways.
Universities need to genuinely support mentorship training for faculty members.
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.
Purely metric-based research evaluation schemes potentially lead to a dystopian academic reality, leaving no space for creativity and intellectual initiative, claims a new study.
In support of #PeerRevWk20 theme #TrustInPeerReview, we asked the Chefs how trust in peer review could be improved. See what they said and add your thoughts!
Researchers stress need for antenatal care, as emerging data link disrupted pregnancy services to increase in stillbirths.
Europe's flagship science agency will be crucial to a post-coronavirus world. Slashing its budget will be a senseless act.
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.
Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.
Exploring the structure, cultural frames of collaboration, and representation of women in the open science and reproducibility literatures.
The unexpected atmospheric detection of phosphine, a smelly gas made by microbes on Earth, could spark a revolution in astrobiology.
Efforts to find and deploy a coronavirus vaccine should be as transparent as possible to increase the chances of success - but the reality is often sadly different.
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.
This article examines why many studies fail to replicate statistically significant published results.
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of herd immunity has become a topic of much debate. This Comment examines the factors that determine it, discusses how far we have come and considers what it will take to reach herd immunity safely.
Food safety officials deny claims that diseased or contaminated meat is being eaten by consumers.
The appointment of a climate change denier to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration comes as Americans face profound threats stoked by climate change, from the vast, deadly wildfires in the West to an unusually active hurricane season in the South and East.
