Scientists identify a species that appears to absorb potentially lethal UV radiation and emit blue light.

Study instead suggests people are initially attracted to those with similar features to themselves.

A camera-trap image of an Amur tiger takes the grand prize at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020.

Bar-tailed godwit flies more than 12,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days.

Prizewinners developed auction formats used in markets for electricity, carbon credits, and radio spectrum allocation.

Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.

This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as "miracles coming down from God." If that's true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.

Beijing joins initiative against 'vaccine nationalism' in contrast to US, which is not part of alliance.

Commissioner Mariya Gabriel today welcomes seven experts as members of the Search Committee for the next President of the ERC.

Editors at the world's leading medical journal said the Trump administration "took a crisis and turned it into a tragedy."

There's a lot of talk of scientists divided over Covid-19, but when you look at the evidence any so-called divide starts to evaporate.

Doctors face reprimands for wearing masks as researchers consider leaving the country. 

In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic - and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.

For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.

With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.

Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.

Public trust in a potential vaccine is under threat. Drug companies and their academic partners must disclose protocols and results data.

Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.