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.

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.

As coronavirus wreaks havoc on existing structures, we take a look at some visions for cities of the future - and how they hold up

Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the second major US funder to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication.

A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up selection of the most effective shots.

Research ministers have agreed to more aggressively police foreign participation in the EU's research programme, adding a new provision to Horizon Europe that is aimed primarily at preventing China and the US from getting access to sensitive European research.

It's not R. But unless you’ve been reading scientific journals, you’re less likely to have encountered k, the measure of the dispersion of the virus.

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the "infodemic."

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows.

Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation and scientific expertise, say legal scholars.

Techniques such as inclusive teaching can inspire “hyperpersistence”. 

A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.

Even as faculty members are given more time to meet a deadline for tenure, many say they are getting less work done because of child care needs.

New antigen tests will help tackle a dangerous inequality, says Charlotte Summers, lecturer in intensive care medicine at the University of Cambridge

Two recent research efforts looked into the southern alligator lizard, which has one of nature's more extreme mating strategies.

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.

Can biodiversity be preserved if the most important countries in the world causing climate change do not sign the pledge?