Osiris-Rex has been flying around the ancient asteroid since 2018 and collected nearly a pound of rubble last fall

This is a series of webinars on six engaging and relevant topics as a precursor to a live event in 2022. These discussions will form part of the broader RI dialogue, and set a foundation we hope to build on in Cape Town when the RI community gather to – at long last – meet in person. 

Last year, my first in medical school at Columbia University, I used a bone saw to slice through the top half of a cadaver's skull, revealing a gray brain lined with purple blood vessels. This was Clinical Gross Anatomy, the first-year course that has fascinated or devastated (or both) every medical student. You never forget the day you open the skull.

While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the current pandemic.

The publisher will launch five new journals, and has introduced a new business model that aims to spread the cost of publishing more fairly.

A recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar on global open access shared perspectives from Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Provision in Endless Frontier Act would tighten U.S. oversight of foreign sources of funding.

Indonesia has dismantled its science ministry and created an overarching national research agency, a move some scientists worry will strengthen political control over research in a country where academic freedom is already under pressure and politics have taken an authoritarian turn.

In the United States, the analysis estimates, 905,000 people have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic.

The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.

Highlights, press releases and speeches

The announcement sought to clarify the surprise recommendation that vaccinated people could largely stop wearing masks in most cases.

For this grad student, speaking publicly about mental health was scary but worth it

Approaches include tailored nanoparticles, chimeric proteins, virus cocktails.

Hundreds of bits of rocket, space stations and satellites have returned to Earth since the 1960s. They are often dumped at sea. How sustainable is that?

Former top World Bank economist Branko Milanović is afraid that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened the wealth divide. Those who have profited most from the crisis, he fears, have broken their pledge to help countries in need.

Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, the World Health Organization says.

Global migration flows show a profound diversification of migrants' groups in recent years. Their patterns of nationality, ethnicity, language, age, gender and legal status are growing ever more complex and migrants with 'new diversity' traits live in cities alongside people from previous immigration waves. Prof. Steven Vertovec's comparative study helps understand how old and new waves of migrants meet, mix, interact and get integrated into a given society.