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As the rush intensifies to find ways to treat and manage COVID-19, one thing is clear: researchers, along with their counterparts in industry and the health services, need unrestricted access to the research literature.
Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.
An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.
High publishing charges keep continent's scholars out of top journals, academics argue.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the second major US funder to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication.
A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up selection of the most effective shots.
The COVID-19 syndemic is entering its most dangerous phase. There is a mounting breakdown of trust. Not only between politicians and the public. But also among politicians and publics with science and scientists. This breach of faith with science is far more threatening.
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.
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Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.
It's not R. But unless you’ve been reading scientific journals, you’re less likely to have encountered k, the measure of the dispersion of the virus.
Part one of a four part series on major barriers to equitable decision-making in hiring, review, promotion, and tenure processes that commonly result from biased thinking in academia. Part one delves into objective comparisons.
Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows.
A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.
Even as faculty members are given more time to meet a deadline for tenure, many say they are getting less work done because of child care needs.
New antigen tests will help tackle a dangerous inequality, says Charlotte Summers, lecturer in intensive care medicine at the University of Cambridge
Two recent research efforts looked into the southern alligator lizard, which has one of nature's more extreme mating strategies.
Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation and scientific expertise, say legal scholars.
A week of talks, panels and discussions seeks to counter an impression "that this talent pool just does not exist."
Can biodiversity be preserved if the most important countries in the world causing climate change do not sign the pledge?
Five international students and postdocs reflect on a turbulent year triggered by the Trump administration's visa restrictions.
Exhibiting a dogmatic faith in metrics, higher education executives are being guided less by rational considerations about educational values and more by the "snake oils" of efficiency, profitability, and accountability. But these dark arts exact a price. Due to increasing competition for funds and jobs, and with the jobs themselves becoming increasingly precarious, universities have become "anxiety machines" for academics.
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.
28 September marks the first celebration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information since its proclamation by the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, is of crucial importance.
Researchers warn that vaccines could stumble on safety trials, be fast-tracked because of politics or fail to meet the public's expectations.
COKI Project Co-lead Professor Cameron Neylon outlines why he is supporting a campaign calling for all abstracts to be made open access.
Bully and ignore the experts, and send in the quacks.
