News coverage of scientific studies can be misleading. Here's how to tell the good from the bad.

Published scientific research, like any piece of writing, is a peculiar literary genre.

How virtual classrooms and dire finances could alter academia: the first chapter in a week-long series on science after the pandemic.

In an interview, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases expressed optimism on some fronts, and concern on others.

Communicate your support for #BlackLivesMatter: Dos, don'ts, and resources.

The CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science highlights the importance of leadership in the face of the current social unrest.

The neuroscientist who advises Independent Sage on Covid-19 discusses the predictive power of his mathematical modelling.

Easy-to-understand comic explains how rigorous science is peer-reviewed and published.  Hint: it's not via YouTube.

Data and infographic updates on the COVID-19 pandemic.

A platform to analyze the relationship between the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic and the information dynamics on social media.

Major scholarly publishers have invested substantially in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.

How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.

Scientists from both countries must rise above political rhetoric for the sake of all, says Xiao-Nong Zhou.

Inside the U.S. and Panama's long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.

How to stand out in the fast-growing throng.

What academic workplaces can do.

On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s in Durban, South Africa. Eight weeks later, 39 patients and 80 staff linked to the hospital had been infected, and 15 patients had died.

Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.

US scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to erasing inequalities - and to defeating the pandemic overall.

Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts?

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is at the forefront of a new crop of space explorers destined for the Moon, and maybe one day, Mars.

Preprints analysis suggests a disproportionate impact on early career researchers.

The Swiss National Science Foundation's new Data Portal presents interactive key figures about research grant funding activity. In addition, its COVID-19 project registry provides information about Swiss research projects seeking answers to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Durch winzige Schwebeteilchen stecken sich in geschlossenen Räumen mehr Menschen mit Covid-19 an als bislang angenommen, vermuten US-Forscher. Das könnte auch Folgen für Restaurants und Cafés haben.

The hunt is on for better ways to collect and search pandemic studies

Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers - and has become the public face of image sleuthing.

An immunization shot is still in development, but debate over who gets priority has already begun.

For the sake of both science and action in the COVID-19 pandemic, we need collaboration among specialists, not sects.

The man behind Trump's favorite unproven treatment has made a great career assailing orthodoxy. His claim of a 100 percent cure rate shocked scientists around the world.

Scottish researchers have taken aim at a study reporting surprising findings on COVID-19 - but what it took to correct the record is all too familiar.