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Nearly 900 universities, research organisations, and funding agencies want science publishers to be more transparent and abide by open access rules, after scientists complained their submissions are rejected if they apply a public copyright licence to accepted manuscripts.
As the pandemic worsened in the United Kingdom during spring 2020, political disputes turned in a strange direction. The UK government started to claim that the UK’s Covid-19 statistics could not be compared with any other country.
Prof. Liselotte Højgaard shares her first impressions as a new member of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC) and explains what makes the ERC so important for long-term frontier research.
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel Facebook's (FB.O) messaging app to break privacy protections, sources said.
Virtual Conference: Academia in times of crises.
After watching this short film on how much data private companies are able to gather about you (data that we willingly give them in some cases), you might be forgiven for thinking that, never mind some far flung future, we are living in a full-on dystopia right now.
The journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones appears to be a victim of viewpoint discrimination. Academic freedom needs a vigorous defense-and not just at UNC.
French trial shows dogs were able to detect presence of coronavirus with 97% accuracy
Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you. Who can apply? Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants - called Principal Investigators (PI) - are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years. The Principal Investigators should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.
Airborne transmission by droplets and aerosols is important for the spread of viruses. Face masks are a well-established preventive measure, but their effectiveness for mitigating SARS-CoV-2 transmission is still under debate. We show that variations in mask efficacy can be explained by different regimes of virus abundance and related to population-average infection probability and reproduction number. For SARS-CoV-2, the viral load of infectious individuals can vary by orders of magnitude. We find that most environments and contacts are under conditions of low virus abundance (virus-limited) where surgical masks are effective at preventing virus spread. More advanced masks and other protective equipment are required in potentially virus-rich indoor environments including medical centers and hospitals. Masks are particularly effective in combination with other preventive measures like ventilation and distancing.
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Brussels presented a new global research agenda on Tuesday, committing to a more cautious approach to cooperation with foreign science powers, while at the same time pledging to reinvigorate ties with an EU-friendly US administration.
Swiss universities called on the Federal Council on Monday to resolve a long-running treaty saga with Brussels, or risk scuppering the country's chances of a research deal.
After a consultation process, the 193 member states of the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO started negotiating the final text of its ‘Recommendation on Open Science’ this month.
Six years after a statue of Cecil Rhodes was toppled, students and staff at the South African university are still working to improve equity and representation.
A new technology developed by researchers from the University of Zürich enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are needed. The innovation could reduce the side effects of cancer therapy and may hold the solution to better delivery of Covid-related therapies directly to the lungs.
Global migration flows show a profound diversification of migrants' groups in recent years. Their patterns of nationality, ethnicity, language, age, gender and legal status are growing ever more complex and migrants with 'new diversity' traits live in cities alongside people from previous immigration waves. Prof. Steven Vertovec's comparative study helps understand how old and new waves of migrants meet, mix, interact and get integrated into a given society.
Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, the World Health Organization says.
Former top World Bank economist Branko Milanović is afraid that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened the wealth divide. Those who have profited most from the crisis, he fears, have broken their pledge to help countries in need.
Hundreds of bits of rocket, space stations and satellites have returned to Earth since the 1960s. They are often dumped at sea. How sustainable is that?
Approaches include tailored nanoparticles, chimeric proteins, virus cocktails.
For this grad student, speaking publicly about mental health was scary but worth it
The announcement sought to clarify the surprise recommendation that vaccinated people could largely stop wearing masks in most cases.
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The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.
In the United States, the analysis estimates, 905,000 people have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic.
Indonesia has dismantled its science ministry and created an overarching national research agency, a move some scientists worry will strengthen political control over research in a country where academic freedom is already under pressure and politics have taken an authoritarian turn.
Provision in Endless Frontier Act would tighten U.S. oversight of foreign sources of funding.
