Study shows collaboration between civil society and academia achieving progress toward the goals of the UN Ocean Decade

Rather than causing a backlash, vaccine mandates promote vaccination uptake, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania.

The world's youth movements are following the science of climate change. It's high time that world leaders did, too.

The successor to Francis Collins will need to be steadfast, nimble and creative in how they run the world's largest biomedical research agency at a pivotal time.

Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.

The EU has wrapped up Horizon Europe negotiations with Israel and hopes to sign it up as an associated country before the end of the year, despite pressure from pro-Palestinian academics and objections in Brussels to the country's settlement policies. While the association was expected, the breakthrough comes as uncertainty clouds the status of the UK and Switzerland, two other major potential partners of the research framework.

As the world marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, DW examines the rising rates of breast cancer in Nigeria, Uganda and Malawi. Lifesaving information is often scarce, and many patients lack access to adequate treatment.

The OECD has published a study that makes nine recommendations to improve the situation of academic careers.

The scholar-led.network is an alliance of Open Access stakeholders that was constituted at the beginning of 2021 as a “digital focus group” in the context of the project “open-access.network”.

A decrease in Earth's reflectance shows our planet is absorbing more solar radiation, but it's not clear if the trend will last.

NASA's Lucy is the first spacecraft to head to the two giant clumps of space rocks that tag along in Jupiter's orbit.

Experts warn findings do not prove cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce death rates.

The Board of Regents has given its universities the power to fire tenured professors without faculty input. Now some fear that academic freedom is threatened, too.

Dozens of researchers tell Nature they have received death threats, or threats of physical or sexual violence.

Are social media bad for your mental health?

A Facebook robot that wraps fiber-optic cables around power lines could help bridge the digital divide by expanding internet access.

Study investigates the importance of tasks associated with data sharing, and researchers’ satisfaction with their ability to complete these tasks.

Stefano Sandrone's Nobel Life features interviews with 24 prizewinners on everything from handling rejection to seizing the moment.

Concerns about a "new Cold War" over science and technology are a major reason behind the creation of a new think tank that looks out for future advances and development.