Experts say 17,500 tree species are at risk around the world, including magnolias, oaks and maples.

A global early warning center in Berlin will use artificial intelligence to predict the next pandemic. But AI's already helped us fight COVID-19.

Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19.

After a fumbling start, the European Union overtook the United States in vaccinations last month.

Models of how the Earth could look in 250m years, with huge land masses and longer days, can help exoplanet hunters

Science is not just something we do at school or professionals undertake in labs. It is at the heart of how everything works.

With today's existing translation tools to overcome language barriers, global collaboration should not be a major feat for researchers. However, through the COVID-19 pandemic, articles published in Chinese journals focusing on important aspects of the disease were never cited by English journals.

I pride myself on coming from a place of “yes.” So it was uncharacteristic that, when my department head asked me to share my experiences of homophobia at a recent virtual diversity town hall for faculty, my first reaction was to decline.

Hoping to put pandemic-related delays behind it, Brussels is getting back to R&I policy-making.

Switzerland will be excluded from Horizon Europe for at least two years, fears Yves Flückiger, president of the country's university association, swissuniversities and rector of the University of Geneva.

For 20 years, science has blossomed in Afghanistan. Now many researchers are fleeing and those who remain face lost funding and the threat of persecution.

Here's how Afghanistan's scholars can be supported.

A leading science policy group has launched a science advisory network for French-speaking countries, enabling researchers across the francophone world to share ideas and best practice.

UK parliamentary group calls for greater representation of women and minority ethnic groups.

The Biden administration's first annual list of R&D priorities includes an emphasis on bolstering pandemic preparedness and climate mitigation efforts, strengthening domestic manufacturing, and incorporating equity considerations across federal programs.

Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people's lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.

These are my remarks from yesterday's UK Student Accommodation Forum on demand for higher education in 2021/22 and on, hosted by Unipol. The event also saw the launch of an excellent new paper on International Students and Factors Affecting Accommodation in the UK. When it comes to demand from home students, the naysayers were wrong in 2020 and […]

The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?

Uncritical and misinformed imitation of physics or biology is a misconception of collaboration.

Prof Paul Davies suggests viruses may form vital part of ecosystems on other planets

Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.

Space tourism began in 2001 with Italian-American millionaire Dennis Tito. Decades later, it's still a preserve of the rich and essentially white.

The space race is heating up, but many legal issues are still open to debate.