Invest in Open Infrastructure receives initial funding to launch and hire a Director.

The pandemic has shown how a lack of solid statistics can be dangerous. But even with the firmest of evidence, we often end up ignoring the facts we don't like.

New guidelines aimed at ensuring AI research is of same quality as that in other fields.

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI's powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace.

Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.

Rise in carbon capture as global warming speeds growth of forests would be negated by earlier deaths, say scientists.

After 25 years I feel Britain has broken my trust. I'm one of many academics who now see their future in Europe

Universal facial masking might help reduce the severity of SARS-CoV-2 and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.

The academic and broadcaster recounts her experience of harassment by a colleague.

The COVID-19 pandemic is severely pressuring a long-building rise in worldwide innovation, likely hindering some innovative activities while catalyzing ingenuity elsewhere, notably in the health sector, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020.

After COVID-19 researchers on the East Coast received a package containing an "unknown substance," the University of Washington told 500 of its staff to be on alert.

EMBL will hold a virtual conference, 'The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women in science: Challenges and solutions' on 9 September.

UKs Labour Party calls on health secretary to explain reasons behind increase and testing centre problems.

The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies.

Test results in 24 hours, temperature checks at every store, no fights over masks.

The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.

Research suggests musicians can reduce infections by decreasing volume.

The Boston university dismissed the students they were caught gathering at a hotel.

Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it.

Explore the first ever forest soundmap of the world.

A growing body of research is raising concerns about the cardiac consequences of the coronavirus.

Seventy-six wealthy nations are now committed to joining a global COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to help buy and fairly distribute the shots, the project's co-lead said on Wednesday.

Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers' background causes concern about unfair accusations.

Science has issued an expression of concern for a paper it published earlier this summer after readers pointed out suspect images in the work.

ETH has been highly successful in the awarding of this year’s ERC Starting Grants for young researchers, with the European Research Council (ERC) approving a total of CHF 21.4 million in funding for 12 ETH project submissions.

A suite of tools can help researchers to manage citations for grants and papers, and share those references with colleagues.

Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, discusses challenges and politics of approving a vaccine before the election.

Sixteen thousand academics urge EU leaders to increase investment over the next seven years.

Research suggests stomach trouble more predictive of virus in young people than a cough.

Impatient for a coronavirus vaccine, dozens of scientists around the world are giving themselves - and sometimes, friends and family - their own unproven versions.