Whatever Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats.

A mint discovered in China was churning out 14-centimetre-long 'spade coins' more than 2,500 years ago.

In unprecedented comments ahead of federal elections in September, Anja Karliczek applauds university that shuttered its institute.

Provision in Endless Frontier Act would tighten U.S. oversight of foreign sources of funding.

It's impossible to predict when and where China's Long March 5 rocket, a CZ-5B, will crash down to Earth. But it will. The question is: What's the risk?

Some publishers say they are battling industrialized cheating. A Nature analysis examines the 'paper mill' problem - and how editors are trying to cope.

The European Commission says it can exclude Chinese participation in Horizon Europe and other sensitive research projects using new powers to exclude third countries that do not share ‘EU values’.

WHO plans to release a summary report of the mission’s finding as early as this week; a full report will come later.

Cao Xuetao, president of Nankai University, will be barred from applying for grants for lax lab management.

Research ministers have agreed to more aggressively police foreign participation in the EU's research programme, adding a new provision to Horizon Europe that is aimed primarily at preventing China and the US from getting access to sensitive European research.

The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies.

Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers' background causes concern about unfair accusations.

China’s science ministry is set to introduce its most comprehensive rules so far for dealing with research misconduct. The measures, which come into effect next month, outline what constitute violations and appropriate punishments. But critics say that enforcement will continue to be a problem.

China is cracking down on publication of academic research about the origins of the novel coronavirus, in what is likely to be part of a wider attempt to control the narrative surrounding the pandemic.

Dr. Bruce Aylward, of the W.H.O., got a rare glimpse into Beijing's campaign to stop the epidemic. Here's what he saw.

A researcher from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation.

New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive 'publish or perish' culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.

Nasa says major decreases in nitrogen dioxide levels are "at least partly" linked to the outbreak.

Public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing.

Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed.

New outbreak comes as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struggles to raise more money, thwart Ebola, and fight health misinformation.