The teams in Africa who detected the new Covid genome moved quickly. Their actions should not result in economic loss.

Helping every scientist to improve is more effective than ferreting out a few frauds.

The former president of the European Research Council (ERC) is sounding an alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic may disrupt Europe's supply of scientific talent. 

These are some of the negative realities of academic life that people often avoid discussing, as well as some advice for dealing with them along the way.

The catalysis of CO2 conversion is a research topic ripe with potential to contribute towards a net-zero future.

Climate campaigners sometimes overstate the science, but they serve a valuable role, says an IPCC lead author.

Analysis of how papers and databases are handled and interpreted shows that geneticists in Europe must stamp out unethical research practices at home, not just abroad.

Researchers and intellectual-property specialists offer their tips for deciding which discoveries are worth patenting, and how to do the homework needed for success.

A look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.

The machine learning outfit's foray into pharmaceuticals could be very useful, but its grand claims should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.

A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.

In the first of a new 'talking leadership' interview series, Rosa Ellis meets the Johns Hopkins University president to discuss how he is realigning the institution to educate students about democracy and encourage them to contest ideas.

How to produce a first-class paper that will get published, stand out from the crowd and pull in plenty of readers.

From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.

Earlier generations faced fallout from the global financial crisis and a boost from emerging economies. Today, COVID-19 and concerns about diversity dominate.

The five general tactics of science denial are: conspiracy, selectivity (cherry-picking), fake experts, impossible expectations (also known as moving goalposts), and general fallacies of logic.

Instead of investing to cheat death, shouldn't we be trying to make old age livable and dignified for all?

Humanistic fields are vital to solving the world's most urgent problems; they also help students shape successful careers and meaningful lives, argue Agustín Rayo and Hashim Sarkis.

Openness and politicization together have enabled public trust in science to erode. And science is insufficiently trustworthy. The scholarly communication sector must not ignore this situation.

Victoria Ficarra and Rob Johnson offer insights into the new UKRI open access policy.

Why aren't libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.

The ELN's Sylvia Mishra writes that AI-generated fake videos - deep fakes - threaten to exacerbate chaos in conflict, lower nuclear thresholds and complicate nuclear weapons decision-making. The uncontrolled use and spread of this technology requires urgent attention from the nuclear policy community.

If by 2052 a computer could match the human brain then we need better ways to build it.

Social mobility champions are accused of having ‘lost focus on the role that a socially mobile society should have in matching all members of society into occupations and roles which they are suited for and enjoy, and at which they excel.’ Indeed, they give little attention to ‘the actual aspirations and ambitions of real people’. 

Watching the data roll in, it may be that the people we need to talk to most about the climate crisis are women.

To thwart publishing rackets that undermine scholars and scholarly publishing, legitimate journals should show their workings.

In today's post, Alice Meadows interviews Jodi Schneider of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about the work she's leading to reduce the inadvertent spread of retracted research.

Today's post is looking at the experiences of people with disabilities in scholarly publishing.

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board is calling for a coherent action plan to counter future health emergencies