As a chance observation threatens to unravel several years of work, a PhD student must choose what to do next.

Faced with the challenge of advising the World Health Organization on who should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory group used an approach it hadn't tried before.

The Commission's Innovation Agenda, adopted last week, has been welcomed in central and eastern Europe for its high-profile acknowledgement of the innovation divide within Europe, and for nailing down the EU's most urgent innovation challenges.

The values that we ascribe to nature are vital parts of our cultures, identities, economies, and ways of life, all of which should be reflected in policy decisions surrounding our natural world, according to a new UN-backed report released on Monday.

A study of the culture in academic workplaces suggests that women and PhD students are most likely to be bullied.

As Brexit dispute deepens, grant winners are forced to reject money or move to Europe.

Wide-ranging expertise and direct involvement of those affected will help to make inequality research more meaningful.

A newly published book looks at how the study of genetics has been warped for political ends.

The engineer says the system has the perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to, a human child.

Workplace crèches and nursing rooms feature, alongside calls for more generous parental leave policies to keep women in science.

The word "bioethics" dates only to 1927, and the subject, as an academic discipline, is only about 50 years old, but the ethical questions that accompany scientific discovery are ancient.

Latest effort would spend billions on a few universities, but skeptics give it long odds.

The High Potential Individual visa is intended to attract graduates from around the world to work in the UK, but its criteria excludes anyone who studied at a university in Africa.

The EFDS will provide funds to academic institutions in Europe that are willing and able to host displaced researchers from Ukraine.

Behind the fall of David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.

The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution were the result of breaking the monopoly on research and study previously held by a small handful.

A cafe in Japan helps writers overcome their procrastination.

It's time to decouple maternity from womanhood. Recent advances in fertility science are helping pave the way toward inclusivity.

As New Zealand considers how and whether to incorporate traditional Māori knowledge in the science curriculum, what might we learn from the experiences of Japan?

Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?

Protected areas help waterbirds thrive if they're actively conserved.

Despite its battlefield failures, Russia has dealt a surprising blow to an unexpected party: world food markets. 

Many Western nations are severing scientific links - but it's a different story in China, India and South Africa.

Politicians are novices by design, so tailoring your communications with them gives you the best chance of cutting through.

The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of scientific advice to modern policymaking. But how can the use of expertise in politics be aligned with the needs and values of the public?

Switzerland and the UK play an important role in scientific projects that bring countries together.

The US president wants huge increases for clean energy and public health, but a divided Congress might not go along with the plan.

This paper develops and studies a complex data-driven framework for human resource management enabling (i) academic talent recognition, (ii) researcher performance measurement, and (iii) renewable resource allocation maximizing the total output of a research unit.

An emerging movement aims to push researchers to pay more heed to inequities in scholarly citations.

The Coalition's decision to veto six research grants was the last straw for a sector that has felt it is under attack and saddled with an unfair funding system.