The WHO's annnouncement came as China confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, as well as a confirmed incident involving human-to-human spread.

McGill professor resigns over university's repeated votes to keep investing in fossil fuels.

A man in Washington State is infected with a new respiratory virus. Federal officials plan to expand screenings for the infection at major airports.

Up to £200,000 per society available for flagging important biomedical research outputs.

Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes.

Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.

Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.

China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.

Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.

Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression.

Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.

Twin disasters marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth's great extinctions.

This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.

Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.

A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment

The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.

PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.

We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.