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A treaty might help countries to prepare for the next pandemic - but first they must study what went wrong during this one.
As the National Institutes of Health begins implementing Trump-era guidelines, researchers voice concerns over transparency and racial profiling.
Analysis reveals three ways to boost green investment and achieve a resilient recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.
The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
Collectively referred to as Data Together, the four collaborating international data organisations-CODATA, GO FAIR, RDA, WDS-have a joint commitment to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify opportunities that will trigger federated infrastructures to service the new reality of data-driven science.
The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world.
Study finds 34% developed psychiatric or neurological conditions after six months.
The Baltimore plant that recently had to scrap up to 15 million ruined doses had flouted rules and downplayed errors, according to internal audits, ex-employees and clients. Other doses had to be scrapped last year.
This author asks: Can scientists who are so meticulous in preparing their papers and so generous with their time in reviewing them for free not find better ways to advance science than relying on profiteering journals?
President and lawmakers push proposals to add technology directorate and boost budget.
The pandemic is being used as a pretext to push unproven artificial-intelligence tools into workplaces and schools.
We hope that the scale and reach of the Covid-19 pandemic will realise sustained change in the research culture, with openness and collaboration firmly embedded.
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
Study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.
We fear and yearn for "the singularity." But it will probably never come.
Students in the organizational theory and leadership course taught by Trevor Owe at the University of Maryland’s iSchool worked together to produce this book.
A preregistered survey experiment spanning six disciplines has found weak evidence of bias in favour of authors from high-status countries and institutions.
Search-engine co-founder Anurag Acharya explains why it now tells authors when their papers should be made free to read.
Troubling narrative: the mere existence of perverse incentives is a valid and sufficient reason to knowingly behave in an antisocial way, just as long as one first acknowledges the existence of those perverse incentives.
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It's worth wondering, though, how a person or machine devoid of experience could reflect on experience it doesn’t have.
His claim that 'greed' was the driver behind the UK's vaccine success ignores the huge role of state funding, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato.
Divers practicing blackwater photography are helping marine scientists gain new insights into fish larvae.
For the moment, reports of a very rare, dangerous blood disorder among recipients cannot be ignored.
Did Covid-19 come from animal markets? It's unclear. Did it emerge from a lab? Also unclear. Here's what a new W.H.O. report says - including questions that the agency's own chief raised about the findings.
Scientists say the conclusions make sense but note that supporters of the lab-leak theory are unlikely to be satisfied.
The pandemic is not a competition between companies and will not end without more-equal distribution of coronavirus vaccines.
