Covid-19 could be a boon for the robotics industry, leaving companies to decide when and where humans are better than machines.
We can't tackle the huge global challenges we face in isolation - scientists must be able to work together across borders.
They buzz. They hover. Sometimes they sting. But how much do you really know about these insects that can menace our summers?
Declining antibody levels do not mean less immunity, experts say. Besides, two widely used tests may detect the wrong antibodies.
The world's third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. This article discusses the future utility of the dual-pillar policy.
A public health journal will be retracting a paper that argued for the adoption of homeopathy in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, according to the editor in chief.
Scientists and science publishers are sharing information as fast as they can during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speed and openness bring new challenges, but they are the way forward for research.
An underlying assumption of modern political states is that they are rational systems that 'follow the science' to achieve optimal outcomes for their citizens. Whilst COVID-19 continues to foregrou…
Project aims to show that clean fusion power can be generated at commercial scale
Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer's disease.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is the envisioned federation of research (data) infrastructures that will enable the Web of FAIR Data and Services, help researchers to perform Open Science, and open up and exploit their data, publications and code.
Survey finds that standard metrics of success can't completely explain why some candidates get offers and others don't.
The aim of this study is to investigate how patterns of collaboration and scholarly independence are related to early stage researchers' development in two multidisciplinary learning environments at a Swedish university. .
According to the Internet Archive every digital learner’s access to library books is at stake due to a lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers. That is why they are standing up to defend the rights of hundreds of libraries that are using Controlled Digital Lending.
Transmission through aerosols matters - and probably a lot more than we've been able to prove yet.
Europe PMC, the literature archive of EMBL-EBI, has started indexing full-text COVID-19 preprints and the associated data.
With a condition that's "too strange for words," patient can do mental math but cannot recognize numerals.
Via Wikimedia A journal has allowed a geophysicist who cited his own work hundreds of times across 10 papers to retract the articles and republish them with a fraction of the self-citations.
The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead.
Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive.
The pandemic is sabotaging the careers of researchers from under-represented groups, but institutions can help to staunch the outflow.
Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.
Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
