With a push from students and alumni, the university faced up to a legacy of support for eugenics. As it renames buildings and programmes, can its story serve as a model for others?

Women often face institutional and cultural barriers to success in science. These resources aim to highlight and advise on how women and their allies can grow their research careers.

As the pandemic continues, researchers are coming to terms with what they've learnt and lost so far, finds Nature's global survey.

This post is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry. 

Scientists who worked on the original UN climate convention doubt that COP26 will deliver for low income countries.

Puerto Rico has an underfunded health care system, high levels of poverty and its infrastructure remains devastated by a major hurricane that swept through the island in 2017.

Ancient rock forms suggest world's first stable cratons rose above sea level more than 3bn years ago

The first female astronaut of color was African-American Mae Jemison - 30 years after the first men and white women flew in space.

Agency says funding issues, along with delays tied to Bezos legal challenge, will push back first landing in a half century

The latest bounty of 35 events features oddball black holes and a miniature neutron star.

At first, no one looked twice at the new variant. Detected in South Africa in January 2021, the novel coronavirus lineage, called C.1, appeared similar to other variants. 

After years of bickering, Washington and Brussels appear to be patching up a disagreement over American researchers participating in the EU's big R&D programmes.

Hundreds of junk-science papers have been retracted from reputable journals after fraudsters used 'special issues' to manipulate the publication process. And the problem is growing.

Influential US Astro2020 panel recommends a space-based telescope operating from ultraviolet to near infra-red to be launched in the mid-2040s.

Poll of 10 countries including US, UK, France and Germany finds people prioritising measures that are already habits.

Fast Grants aimed to solve the slowness of the scientific grant evaluation procedure in several ways. This wasn’t business as usual. It was Operation Warp Speed for science.

You always knew demonstrating empathy is positive for people, but new research demonstrates its importance for everything from innovation to retention.

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) are to join the Bill Gates Breakthrough Energy initiative, in a €820 million deal intended to put some impetus behind the scale-up of critical climate technologies developed in the EU and create markets for them.

Research and university associations from across Europe have sent a letter to the European Commission calling for the UK to become associated in Horizon Europe without delay.