A young researcher who shot to fame in scientific circles when she published an apparently radical and simple way to create stem cells has been found guilty of misconduct by a committee charged with investigating her work

More than 60 major German research institutions are to be expected to have no access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier from 1 January 2017 on, among them Göttingen University with 440 Elsevier journals.

India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has boosted the country's economy by fostering a booming generic drugs industry and devising new approaches to hybrid crops. Now, the network of 38 national laboratories needs to nurture its own finances.

Latest action sows anxiety and confusion across the US scientific workforce.

A guest-edited collection of features, comment and analysis examines researchers' experiences of racism, the impacts of systemic racism and how science can and must change.

Amid one of the most severe political crises ever in the South American country, the scientific community sees no end to the prolonged decline of national science

New technologies and scientific breakthroughs top the list of hope for the future in national survey, published this spring, outlining the attitudes of the British public towards science. 

Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.

Airborne transmission by droplets and aerosols is important for the spread of viruses. Face masks are a well-established preventive measure, but their effectiveness for mitigating SARS-CoV-2 transmission is still under debate. We show that variations in mask efficacy can be explained by different regimes of virus abundance and related to population-average infection probability and reproduction number. For SARS-CoV-2, the viral load of infectious individuals can vary by orders of magnitude. We find that most environments and contacts are under conditions of low virus abundance (virus-limited) where surgical masks are effective at preventing virus spread. More advanced masks and other protective equipment are required in potentially virus-rich indoor environments including medical centers and hospitals. Masks are particularly effective in combination with other preventive measures like ventilation and distancing.

US lawmakers have warned that fake research papers risk compromising trust in the entire scientific system, as Artificial Intelligence makes it ever easier for so-called paper mills to fool journals into accepting made up articles.

It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say.

We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results.

My recent reporting has highlighted why racial exclusion in "the queen of the sciences'' may matter most of all.

UK researchers find link between regular meat intake and nine non-cancerous illnesses.

Alexander Semenov is a marine biologist and head of the scientific diving team at the White Sea Biological Station of Moscow State University.