We are told not to worry about breakthrough cases because they are 'mild' - but long Covid is anything but mild

Climate change is messing with the size of animals around the world, from birds to mammals to fish.

The vaccines work very well, but current public-health communications may be understating the frequency of infections among the vaccinated.

Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

Female representation now proportionate to UK academia as a whole, even if ethnic minorities still fall short.

A mathematical ritual known as null hypothesis significance testing has led researchers astray since the 1950s.

As children head back to school in the United States, here's a look at various testing strategies that could keep kids safe during in-person learning.

Researchers blame lack of stimulation as parents balanced childcare with working from home.

The authorization applies to people who received solid organ transplants and others with similarly compromised immune systems.

Press briefing from Dr. Eric Lander, President’s Science Advisor and Director of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Governments and companies urgently need to share data on the mounting volume of satellites and debris orbiting Earth.

The 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey results provides a comprehensive picture of the challenges and achievements in Open Science at Europe’s universities.

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

Most every kid learns a² + b² = c² in math. Pythagoras, right? Wrong. Babylonians used trigonometry 1,000 years before the Greeks. Time to rewrite history?

Official records contrast with witness evidence of loneliness and physical decline among older people in Georgian society

As I write this at the end of July, 79 wildfires are burning across 12 states in the U.S.

It's not just drought and strong winds driving the catastrophic wildfires in southern Europe, fire expert Johann Goldammer says in an interview with DW.

The most vulnerable developing countries plead for action after a stark warning from a UN panel.

Chemist María Fernanda Cerdá uses natural dyes from Uruguay's indigenous flora to build solar cells.

In a major post-Brexit move, the UK government kicked off its own student mobility programme with an announcement that its Turing Scheme will fund over 40,000 students for education and training placements across 150 countries. According to the outcomes of the first funding round, 363 projects were approved to receive £96 million in grants to send students to Canada, Japan and the US, but also in several European countries.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states every corner of the planet is already being affected and it could get far worse.

The details align with Plan S - but UKRI hasn't yet decided whether to pay for open-access publishing in some hybrid journals.