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Careers

Pandemic Imperils Promotions for Women in Academia

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Pandemic Imperils Promotions for Women in Academia

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.

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A New Test from the WHO Could Be a Game Changer in the Fight Against Covid

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International

A New Test from the WHO Could Be a Game Changer in the Fight Against Covid

New antigen tests will help tackle a dangerous inequality, says Charlotte Summers, lecturer in intensive care medicine at the University of Cambridge

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Biodiversity

Hold Me, Squeeze Me, Bite My Head

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Hold Me, Squeeze Me, Bite My Head

Two recent research efforts looked into the southern alligator lizard, which has one of nature's more extreme mating strategies.

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What Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Mean for Science

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What Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Mean for Science

Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation and scientific expertise, say legal scholars.

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How to Narrow Achievement Gaps for Underrepresented Students

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How to Narrow Achievement Gaps for Underrepresented Students

Techniques such as inclusive teaching can inspire “hyperpersistence”. 

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COVID-19

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

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COVID-19

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

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.

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COVID-19

Study Finds 'Single Largest Driver' of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump

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Study Finds 'Single Largest Driver' of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the "infodemic."

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Bias

Rethinking Research Assessment

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Research Assessment
Bias

Rethinking Research Assessment

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.

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Biodiversity

40% of World's Plant Species at Risk of Extinction

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40% of World's Plant Species at Risk of Extinction

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows.

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India Pushes Bold 'one Nation, One Subscription' Journal-access Plan

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India Pushes Bold 'one Nation, One Subscription' Journal-access Plan

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

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Powerful US Research Funder Unveils Strict Open-Access Policy

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Powerful US Research Funder Unveils Strict Open-Access Policy

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.

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New Global Lab Network Will Compare COVID-19 Vaccines Head-to-head

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COVID-19

New Global Lab Network Will Compare COVID-19 Vaccines Head-to-head

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.

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Science and the Breakdown of Trust

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Science and the Breakdown of Trust

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.

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EU Expands Powers to Block Chinese and US Companies from Horizon Europe

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United States
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EU Expands Powers to Block Chinese and US Companies from Horizon Europe

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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FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission

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FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Shortcut to this page: https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols Version: 1.78, 1-Oct-2020 Click here to jump over the scientific & historical details and go straight to the recommendations, Click here for automatic translation into many la...

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Coronavirus Drug and Treatment Tracker

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Coronavirus Drug and Treatment Tracker

An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.

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Open Access

Open-Access Fees Creating 'A Crisis' for African Research

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Open-Access Fees Creating 'A Crisis' for African Research

High publishing charges keep continent's scholars out of top journals, academics argue.

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Crows Possess Higher Intelligence Long Thought Primarily Human

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Crows Possess Higher Intelligence Long Thought Primarily Human

Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

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COVID-19

Why Anthony Fauci is Happy Being the 'skunk' on the Coronavirus Task Force

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COVID-19

Why Anthony Fauci is Happy Being the 'skunk' on the Coronavirus Task Force

In another candid interview, the NIAID director explains how he tries to counters White House optimism with "reality".

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How Trump Damaged Science

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Trump

How Trump Damaged Science

The US president's actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.

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COVID-19

The Future of Scholarly Communications

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Open Access
COVID-19

The Future of Scholarly Communications

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.

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Virologists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Win Medicine Nobel

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Medicine

Virologists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Win Medicine Nobel

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.

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Geography

From Garden Streets to Bike Highways: Four Ideas for Post-Covid Cities - Visualised

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Geography

From Garden Streets to Bike Highways: Four Ideas for Post-Covid Cities - Visualised

As coronavirus wreaks havoc on existing structures, we take a look at some visions for cities of the future - and how they hold up

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Drone Photo Awards 2020

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Technology

Drone Photo Awards 2020

Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video.

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COVID-19
US

'Covid is All About Privilege': Trump's Care Underscores Health Inequalities

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COVID-19
US

'Covid is All About Privilege': Trump's Care Underscores Health Inequalities

Trump's experience is a world away from the stressful waiting game most patients wade through after a positive test.

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COVID-19

Face Masks: What the Data Say

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COVID-19

Face Masks: What the Data Say

The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?

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US

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral

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COVID-19
US

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

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Charting a Covid-19 Immune Response

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COVID-19

Charting a Covid-19 Immune Response

How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.

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Conference

University:Future Festival 6-8 October

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Universities
Conference

University:Future Festival 6-8 October

For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.

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Universities

'It Really Was Abandonment.' Virus Crisis Grips British Universities

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Universities

'It Really Was Abandonment.' Virus Crisis Grips British Universities

With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.

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