Scientists and journalists need to establish a service to review research that's publicized before it is peer reviewed.

Thoughts from an MD on the COVID-19 crisis.

The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten

Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, including making articles Open Access in line with their funders’ requirements. To address this problem, cOAlition S has developed a Rights Retention Strategy, which will empower their funded researchers to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, and provide Open Access in compliance with Plan S.

The coronavirus has obviously brought with it an epidemic of anxiety and depression. Or has it?

His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we're still coming to grips with the

How do libraries decide which titles to keep when they cancel the Big Deal? What do the results look like?

To fight the raging US pandemic, researchers need to better understand its uneven burden.

As conference cancellations cut revenue, some scholarly organizations are fighting to stay afloat.

At least two more journals are fighting decisions by Clarivate — the company behind the Impact Factor — to suppress them from the 2019 list of journals assigned a metric that many rightly or wrongly consider career-making.

The CDC struggles with structural and cultural issues that have left the agency ill-equipped to fend off political attacks or to build up political capital.

The portion of the population that needs to get sick is not fixed. We can change it.

The process of recruiting a new CEO will commence over the next few weeks. An open future has never been more important – will you join us to create it?

The coronavirus pandemic has posed a special challenge for scientists: Figuring out how to make sense of a flood of scientific papers from labs and scientists unfamiliar to them.

This article looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.

As lockdowns ease, Olivier Pourret hopes that academia will take on board lessons about how to redefine career success.

The European Commission released the European Innovation Scoreboard 2020. According to the ranking, Switzerland continues to be the most innovative country of the continent.

This article shows the effort to study treatments has been marked by disorder and chaos, with huge financial resources wasted.

New federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to contract the virus and die from it.

Are those deciding whether to reopen campuses this fall facing the same risks as everyone else?

The space agency gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the sun, which have now been stitched together to form the video.

You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes.

If your lab is still shuttered and work is a struggle, technology researcher Sun Sun Lim offers advice on how to switch off.

Panellists offer advice on productivity, parenting under lockdown and mental well-being, with more webcasts planned.

It’s not the first time masculine ideology has driven resistance to a public health initiative.

In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.

CoVis provides a curated knowledge map of seminal works on COVID-19 research. The knowledge map is constantly evolving thanks to the collective editing of subject-matter experts.

In late March of this year, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick suggested in an interview that many people over 70-himself included-would be willing to risk contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) so as not to, in his words, "sacrifice the country." At the time, his comments were widely re

What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?

With male voices dominating the pandemic narrative, female scientists are lamenting the loss of diverse perspectives.