International study finds change in attitudes possibly driven by anticipated regret of not having vaccine.

On March 4, 1969, the Union of Concerned Scientists held its first public event at MIT with the goal of disrupting teaching and research to give way to a different kind of teaching-reflecting on the misuse of scientific knowledge. It's relevance is continued.

The total number of butterflies west of the Rockies has fallen 1.6% a year since 1977, a study finds: "You extrapolate it and it's crazy."

Conservation groups welcome aspects of the largely voluntary packaging and recycling targets but warn regulation will be necessary.

This newsletter takes a closer look at the effect of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the participants of the CTC surveys in fall 2020.

Effort found four drugs had little benefit, now on hold until new drugs are chosen to test.

The Dance Your Ph.D. contest has been challenging scientists to explain their research through dance for 14 years now. The competition got a new COVID-19 category this year.

A warming atmosphere is causing a branch of the ocean's powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, some scientists fear.

M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.

B.1.351 may sound sweet to a molecular epidemiologist, but what's the alternative, other than stigmatizing geographical names?

Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs.

The Einstein Foundation funds science and research of top international calibre in Berlin.

Advanced Research & Innovation Agency will be exempt from existing procurement rules for 'maximum flexibility', says government

UK researchers find link between regular meat intake and nine non-cancerous illnesses.

The American Physical Society's new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.

The next phase of the Executable Research Article project will focus on reducing barriers to the authoring and publication of reproducible research papers.

Making a vaccine for malaria is challenging because its associated parasite blocks the generation of the memory T-cells that make traditional vaccines effective. But scientists recently tried a new approach using an RNA-based platform.

New research links Delhi's thick smogs to burning of plastics

Decline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in Europe and higher sea levels on US east coast

Bitcoin mining - the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm - is a deeply energy intensive process

Hackers seeking to extort Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research release confidential documents.

Many scientists are expecting another rise in infections. But this time the surge will be blunted by vaccines and, hopefully, widespread caution. By summer, Americans may be looking at a return to normal life.

As Horizon Europe issues its first call for grants, Nature reviews some big changes - from open science to goal-oriented "missions".

The best visual and data-driven stories of 2020.

This review highlights where academics’ performance needs support and how the work environment can be improved to bolster publication productivity.

Nations the world over are increasingly turning to quantitative performance-based metrics to evaluate the quality of research outputs, as these metrics are abundant and provide an easy measure of ranking research. In 2010, the Danish Ministry of Science and Higher Education followed this trend and began portioning out a percentage of the available research funding according to how many research outputs each Danish university produces. Not all research outputs are eligible: only those published in a curated list of academic journals and publishers, the so-called BFI list, are included. The BFI list is ranked, which may create incentives for academic authors to target certain publication outlets or publication types over others. In this study we examine the potential effect these relatively new research evaluation methods have had on the publication patterns of researchers in Denmark. The study finds that publication behaviors in the Natural Sciences & Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have changed, while the Health Sciences appear unaffected. Researchers in Natural Sciences & Technology appear to focus on high impact journals that reap more BFI points. While researchers in SSH have also increased their focus on the impact of the publication outlet, they also appear to have altered their preferred publication types, publishing more journal articles in the Social Sciences and more anthologies in the Humanities.

While we have seen the percentage of OA increasing rapidly in recent years, especially in countries like China, Germany and the UK, it was not until 2020 that more outputs were published through Open Access channels than traditional subscription channels globally.

Open repository will give free access to more than 160 million data points with details about individual infections.

Hilda Bastian on the most important pandemic vaccine in the pipeline and why we're on track for annual booster shots.

The authors of a book marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's "Descent of Man" discuss "a most interesting problem" - namely how the naturalist's fundamental misconceptions on sex and race still shape society.