As the start of the 2022/23 academic year begins, it’s timely to draw attention to technicians who play a critical role in higher education and research. 

'Jarring' study reveals hiring bias at US institutions.

Biosecurity advisers to the federal government are calling for tighter scrutiny of experiments with potentially dangerous viruses and other pathogens, reflecting an ongoing debate within the scientific community over the benefits and risks of such laboratory research.

Chris Graf (and colleagues) present five reasons to be cheerful about research integrity and peer review.

European Research Council president tells UN General Assembly science alone is not guaranteed to save the world from the climate disaster and the other crises it faces.

Europe's largest research labs have begun to worry about soaring utility bills and are drafting proposals for additional funding, as they enter into negotiations with national research agencies on overall budgets.

Archaeologists say find supports theory that drug was used in burial rituals, possibly to 'enter ecstatic state'

Examining funded proposals enables grant writers to produce more compelling proposals.

The success of international climate cooperation relies on whether national commitments are believable under the Paris Agreement. What determines the credibility of these commitments?

Science and public health can benefit tremendously from sharing and reuse of health data. The Research for Health department has helped spearhead the launch of a new policy from the Science Division which covers all research undertaken by or with support from WHO. The goal is to make sure that all research data is shared equitably, ethically and efficiently.

Scheme gets under way as data suggests Environment Agency's own monitoring leaves rivers unprotected

Reference lists for more than 60 million journal studies in Crossref are now free to view and reuse.

Researchers examined Covid-19 response and recommended the nation separates science advice from government

Thailand and the EU last week signed off a new scheme allowing researchers from Thailand to join European Research Council-funded projects. ERC already has a number of such arrangements with countries including Australia, Brazil, China, India and the US, but this is the first time it has cooperated with Thailand's National Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy Council.

A new ultraconservative supermajority on the United States' top court is undermining science's role in informing public policy. Scholars fear the results could be disastrous for public health, justice and democracy itself.

Research manuscripts and the associated scientific data generated for projects that are funded by federal agencies in the United States will need to be made publicly available immediately on publication.

Climate change affects us all yet not equally. The plight of those forced to migrate as a result - often called 'climate refugees', though not officially - has become contested ground between human rights/environmental activists and anti-asylum lobbyists. Could 'ecologically displaced', avoiding racialization, xenophobia and division, be a viable alternative?

Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme

Ozone-killing materials in Earth's stratosphere fell over 50% to levels seen before the ozone hole became a problem, scientists say. But there's still a way to go. Here's why we need a healthy ozone layer.

They look like scientific papers. But they're distorting and killing science.

Researchers must help to define science-based targets for water, nutrients, carbon emissions and more to avoid cascading effects and stave off tipping points in Earth's systems.

THE CLIMATE COUNCIL has unveiled 10 game-changing actions Australian governments can immediately get cracking on to fast-track emissions reductions, tackle the energy and cost-of-living crises, and create tens of thousands of new jobs.  

Government representatives welcome novel mechanism but do not commit funding

In the health spending debate, what policy makers need most is an honest, realistic, and evidence-based discussion. Unfortunately, many studies in the public arena fall far short.

As the gulf between climate science and climate action grows, these scientists are putting their bodies on the line to demand more is done.

This article discusses why scientific advice must be separate from government decisions and evaluate the autonomy and transparency of the UK's system.

Nearly 62% of Chileans voted against the proposed charter, which would have boosted science.

The Körber European Science Prize has been awarded to cell biologist Anthony Hyman. Hyman discovered a new state of biological matter that may hold the keys to some of the biggest questions in biology.

About 20% of data centers in the United States already rely on watersheds that are under moderate to high stress from drought and other factors. However, few companies are talking about the issue.

The moon contains a lot of mineral wealth-but how practical is mining it?