As the first national network of early-career researchers marks its 21st birthday, the founders of Hungary's describe how and why they set up theirs in 2019.

International financial institutions say that vaccines are the highest-return investment on Earth - it is past time for them to pay up.

Around the world, dozens of ingenious projects are trying to 'trick' the ocean into absorbing more CO2. But critics warn of unforeseen consequences

While men over 50 tend to suffer the most acute symptoms of coronavirus, women who get long Covid outnumber men by as much as four to one

Leaders in the South Bay are trying out a radical new approach to designing climate solutions.

More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease.

Two-thirds of the world's rainforests have been wiped out or degraded, according to a 2020 analysis.

University of Queensland researchers have found a bacteria-killing compound in the toxins of mottled cup moth caterpillars

The University of Oxford said on Wednesday it was testing anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19, as part of a British government-backed study that aims to aid recoveries in non-hospital settings.

Change.org effort that says 'billionaires should not exist' has gathered tens of thousands of signatures

Quantum mechanics seems to have a problem with the order of time, which might signal the need for an entirely new type of law.

In this study, a novelty indicator to quantify the degree of citation similarity between a focal paper and a pre-existing same-domain paper from various fields in the natural sciences is applied by proposing a new way of identifying papers that fall into the same domain of focal papers using bibliometric data only. 

A global movement of younger researchers is making its mark. Science must listen and learn from its next generation.

An external analysis of 15 years of stories finds men quoted more than twice as often as women.

How scientists are perfecting the art of boiling down their work into a short, sharp hit.

Switzerland has been excluded from a provisional list of third countries eligible for Horizon Europe funding.

Remains with combination of Neanderthal and early human features date back 100,000 years.

New head of Science Advice for Policy by European Academies is the President of ALLEA, and a fellow of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

Prominent evolutionary biologist is the second to be removed from prestigious group for sexual misconduct.

Effort aims to identify what's ethical and legal-and what's not.

Wider take-up by academics requires both relevance to specific disciplines and accessibility across disciplines, says Camille Kandiko Howson.

Research shows that a previous coronavirus infection plus one dose of vaccine provides powerful protection - but concerns linger.

Faculty and staff members at Utrecht University will be evaluated by their commitment to open science.