How Scientists Are Coping with 'ecological Grief'
Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.
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We Are Seeing the Very Worst of Our Scientific Predictions Come to Pass in These Bushfires | Joëlle Gergis
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal
UK health service will not gain commercial benefit from future Amazon products using its data
'The Netflixisation of Academia': is This the End for University Lectures?
Universities are increasingly recording lectures, but academics are wary of being spied on or made obsolete.
The Guardian's View on University Strikes: a Battle for the Soul of the Campus
The Guardian's View on University Strikes: a Battle for the Soul of the Campus
The market model in higher education has created an intellectual precariat who are right to fight back.
'We're at Breaking Point': Will UK Scientists' Big Ideas Survive Brexit?
Funding for blue skies research is falling in favour of work aligned with the government's strategic priorities.
History As a Giant Data Set: How Analysing the Past Could Help Save the Future
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?
Scientist Who Takes on Firms Causing Wildfires Wins John Maddox Prize
Bambang Hero Saharjo has received death threats for testifying against companies.
Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told to Leave Britain
Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities' ability to attract global talent
Climate Crisis: 11,000 Scientists Warn of 'Untold Suffering'
The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists.
Nasa's Voyager 2 Sends Back Its First Message from Interstellar Space
The Nasa craft is the second to travel beyond heliosphere but gives the most detailed data yet.
Naomi Oreskes: 'Discrediting Science is a Political Strategy'
The Harvard professor on science and scepticism - and why climate deniers have run out of excuses.
What Hypocrisy, I Think Guiltily, As I Jet off to Academic Conferences Far and Wide
Healthcare Algorithm Used Across America Has Dramatic Racial Biases
The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. A study found evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that black patients assigned the same level of risk by the algorithm are sicker than white patients.
Block on GM Rice 'has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness'
Block on GM Rice 'has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness'
Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice
'The Way Universities Are Run is Making Us Ill': Inside the Student Mental Health Crisis
'The Way Universities Are Run is Making Us Ill': Inside the Student Mental Health Crisis
The long read: A surge in anxiety and stress is sweeping UK campuses. What is troubling students, and is it the universities' job to fix it?
AI Equal with Human Experts in Medical Diagnosis, Study Finds
Research suggests AI able to interpret medical images using deep learning algorithm.
If World Leaders Choose to Fail Us, My Generation Will Never Forgive Them | Greta Thunberg
If World Leaders Choose to Fail Us, My Generation Will Never Forgive Them | Greta Thunberg
We are in the middle of a climate breakdown, and all they can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth, says climate activist Greta Thunberg.
The Silenced: Meet the Climate Whistleblowers Muzzled by Trump
Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science - and why they won't stay quiet.
UK Universities Welcome U-turn on Student Visas
The UK government’s announcement of its plans to offer extended post-study work visas for international graduates of UK universities has received an unusual response - unalloyed praise from the higher education sector.
Switzerland Was Sent into Scientific Exile. No Deal Could Mean the Same for Britain
Switzerland Was Sent into Scientific Exile. No Deal Could Mean the Same for Britain
EU-backed research projects were slashed after Switzerland voted to curb immigration. The UK should take note.
We Scientists Must Rise Up to Prevent the Climate Crisis. Words Aren't Enough
Ebola Now Curable After Trials of Drugs in DRC, Say Scientists
Congo results show good survival rates for patients treated quickly with antibodies.
Overseas Students Face 'unacceptable' Visa Costs After Outsourcing
Universities fear chaos in September as private company struggles with workload.
Without These Women, Man Would Not Have Walked on the Moon
Numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses, helped put a man on the moon. Here are the stories of some of those women.
Cambridge's One-on-one Teaching Model is Based on Exploiting Graduates
As lecturers, we're protesting today to persuade the university to pay its PhD teaching staff proper wages
Black Academics Bear the Brunt of University Work on Race Equality
From mentoring to focus groups ethnic minority academics and students are under pressure to close the 13% attainment gap.
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