A look at all the vaccines that have reached trials in humans.

Wednesday June 10 has been designated a day of action in STEM and in academia in support of Black lives. Non-Black, non-Indigenous people in STEM and academia are invited to dedicate their working hours to formulating a plan of ACTION for how to join the struggle to ensure that Black lives matter.

Experts give their opinion on what risks are worth it in the age of coronavirus.

As marchers in the United States and around the world filled the streets this past week to protest against police brutality and racial injustice, Black scientists grieved openly on social media, calling for action on racism in society and in science.

This week The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs step off stage in order to spotlight research and researchers writing about racism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Today's spotlight is the "Racism in Medicine" issue of The BMJ.

We invite researchers and data scientists focused on Coronavirus and COVID-19 vaccines and drugs, as well as clinical research, to freely access these solutions.

The platform evaluates these journals’ peer-review procedures and invites journal editors to provide such information for inclusion in the database.

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.