Outlawing ecocide would hold governments and corporations accountable for environmental negligence. We can't wait.
A joined-up approach is needed to make sure the public are given clear, correct information, says healthcare historian Sally Frampton
The authors of a book marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's "Descent of Man" discuss "a most interesting problem" - namely how the naturalist's fundamental misconceptions on sex and race still shape society.
Hilda Bastian on the most important pandemic vaccine in the pipeline and why we're on track for annual booster shots.
Parenthood explains most of the gender productivity gap by lowering the average short-term productivity of mothers. However, the size of productivity penalty for mothers appears to have shrunk over time.
The OA Switchboard has started to develop from an initial seed of an idea into an active community initiative with a broad spectrum of stakeholders committed to making it a success.
While we have seen the percentage of OA increasing rapidly in recent years, especially in countries like China, Germany and the UK, it was not until 2020 that more outputs were published through Open Access channels than traditional subscription channels globally.
Nations the world over are increasingly turning to quantitative performance-based metrics to evaluate the quality of research outputs, as these metrics are abundant and provide an easy measure of ranking research. In 2010, the Danish Ministry of Science and Higher Education followed this trend and began portioning out a percentage of the available research funding according to how many research outputs each Danish university produces. Not all research outputs are eligible: only those published in a curated list of academic journals and publishers, the so-called BFI list, are included. The BFI list is ranked, which may create incentives for academic authors to target certain publication outlets or publication types over others. In this study we examine the potential effect these relatively new research evaluation methods have had on the publication patterns of researchers in Denmark. The study finds that publication behaviors in the Natural Sciences & Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have changed, while the Health Sciences appear unaffected. Researchers in Natural Sciences & Technology appear to focus on high impact journals that reap more BFI points. While researchers in SSH have also increased their focus on the impact of the publication outlet, they also appear to have altered their preferred publication types, publishing more journal articles in the Social Sciences and more anthologies in the Humanities.
The ability of researchers to raise funding is central to academic achievement. However, whether success in obtaining research funds correlates with the productivity, quality or impact of a researcher is debated. The study analyses 10 years of grant funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
This review highlights where academics’ performance needs support and how the work environment can be improved to bolster publication productivity.
As Horizon Europe issues its first call for grants, Nature reviews some big changes - from open science to goal-oriented "missions".
Many scientists are expecting another rise in infections. But this time the surge will be blunted by vaccines and, hopefully, widespread caution. By summer, Americans may be looking at a return to normal life.
Hackers seeking to extort Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research release confidential documents.
Bitcoin mining - the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm - is a deeply energy intensive process
Decline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in Europe and higher sea levels on US east coast
New research links Delhi's thick smogs to burning of plastics
I don't expect to get every grant I apply for, but the least agencies could do is give me a little feedback, says Juan Manuel Parrilla Gutierrez.
Making a vaccine for malaria is challenging because its associated parasite blocks the generation of the memory T-cells that make traditional vaccines effective. But scientists recently tried a new approach using an RNA-based platform.
Academic mobility is often a prerequisite for professional development and career advancement - but what happens at a time when this mobility simply isn't possible?
The next phase of the Executable Research Article project will focus on reducing barriers to the authoring and publication of reproducible research papers.
The American Physical Society's new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.
An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don't quite know what to make of it.
The process of setting up a funding agency for high-risk research in the United Kingdom is under way. But questions remain about how it will benefit science.
UK researchers find link between regular meat intake and nine non-cancerous illnesses.
Not one Covid jab had been administered in 130 of the world's poorer countries by mid-February, says the Guardian editor, author and presenter Kanishk Tharoor.
Advanced Research & Innovation Agency will be exempt from existing procurement rules for 'maximum flexibility', says government
