The Epic Battle Against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories
Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.
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COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started
COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started
As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.
Study Tells 'Remarkable Story' About COVID-19's Deadly Rampage Through a South African Hospital
Study Tells 'Remarkable Story' About COVID-19's Deadly Rampage Through a South African Hospital
On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s in Durban, South Africa. Eight weeks later, 39 patients and 80 staff linked to the hospital had been infected, and 15 patients had died.
Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of Preprints - Absolutely Maybe
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.
Promoting Equity and Inclusion for Mothers in Academe
What academic workplaces can do.
Preprinting a Pandemic: the Role of Preprints in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Six Tips for Data Sharing in the Age of the Coronavirus
Researchers are rushing to pool resources and data sets to tackle the pandemic, but the new era of openness comes with concerns around privacy, ownership and ethics.
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said.
French Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 Study Withdrawn
The authors of a preprint on use of hydroxychloroquine, the controversial drug heavily promoted by President Trump, have withdrawn the paper.
Scientists Baffled by Decision to Stop a Pioneering Coronavirus Testing Project
These Are The Fake Experts Pushing Pseudoscience And Conspiracy Theories About The Coronavirus Pandemic
Sweden Becomes Country with Highest Coronavirus Death Rate Per Capita
Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
Why America's Students, Colleges and Universities Deserve More Financial Relief
How to Address the Coronavirus's Outsized Toll on People of Colour
US scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to erasing inequalities - and to defeating the pandemic overall.
Data Sharing in the Current Crisis
Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.
How to Talk About Freedom During a Pandemic
Anti-stay-at-home protesters aren't the only ones with an argument based on individual rights on their side.
Vaccine Experts Say Moderna's Covid-19 Data Leave Big Questions
While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.
Cambridge Lectures to Be Online-only in 2020-21
There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.
The First Footprints on Mars Could Belong to This Geologist
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is at the forefront of a new crop of space explorers destined for the Moon, and maybe one day, Mars.
The Rogue Experimenters
Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts?
Llama Antibodies Could Help Fight Coronavirus, Study Finds
Researchers hope llama antibodies could help protect humans who have not been infected.
Open-access Science Funders Announce Price Transparency Rules for Publishers
Open-access Science Funders Announce Price Transparency Rules for Publishers
Science journals will have to disclose the costs of publishing articles by July 2022 in order for them to be paid for by a coalition of research funders pushing for open access.
Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine Generates Immune Response, Early Data Show
The immune response is similar to the response seen in people who have been infected by the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, and recovered.
SNSF Data Portal - SNSF Key Figures and COVID-19 Project Registry
The Swiss National Science Foundation's new Data Portal presents interactive key figures about research grant funding activity. In addition, its COVID-19 project registry provides information about Swiss research projects seeking answers to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Decline of Women's Research Production During the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Decline of Women's Research Production During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Preprints analysis suggests a disproportionate impact on early career researchers.
Reaching out: science communication in times of pandemic
Reaching out: science communication in times of pandemic
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, science is crucial to inform public policy. At the same time, mistrust of scientists and misinformation about scientific facts are rampant. Six scientists, actively involved in outreach, reflect on how to build a better understanding and trust of science.
Dicke Luft Im Restaurant: Wie Covid-19-Tröpfchen in Innenräumen Zur Gefahr Werden - DER SPIEGEL - Wissenschaft
Dicke Luft Im Restaurant: Wie Covid-19-Tröpfchen in Innenräumen Zur Gefahr Werden - DER SPIEGEL - Wissenschaft
Durch winzige Schwebeteilchen stecken sich in geschlossenen Räumen mehr Menschen mit Covid-19 an als bislang angenommen, vermuten US-Forscher. Das könnte auch Folgen für Restaurants und Cafés haben.
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