This author offers lessons learned from year of running an online conference in 2021, designing a hybrid conference for 2022, and observing what event providers have offered and delegates have experienced.
A bronze statuette recovered from a river in Germany may have been part of an early Scandinavian weight system, some archaeologists believe.
Slovenian universities and research stakeholders are decrying government interference in the appointment of a new head of the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS). The agency's management board appointed cardiologist Mitja Lainščak as acting director on Saturday 28 January, a few days after the government replaced four members of the board who disagreed with that decision, and had instead twice proposed economist Lidija Tičar Padar for the job.
The UK has launched a research and development competition with South Korea, the latest in a string of recently announced collaborations with countries outside the EU. It comes as Brussels announces that it has entered official Horizon Europe association talks with South Korea and New Zealand.
A team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) has studied various scenarios for reducing the Swiss carbon footprint tied to electricity consumption. The authors recommend the implementation of a domestic generation mix of wind and photovoltaic energy.
Apart from economic, political, and cultural cooperation for an equal growth of all developing countries, science and technology are an integral significant component in these levels of engagement for leveraging mutual gains. The current pandemic not only brought about an 1800 shift in the relationship between the government, policy makers, and the scientific community but highlights the importance of South–South Cooperation (SSC).
The world is failing to tackle the persisting and increasingly serious global crisis of depression it is facing, according to a Lancet and World Psychiatric Association Commission on depression, which calls for a whole-of-society response to reducing the global burden of depression.
No matter the setting, communicating science requires understanding both audience and goal. Here's a framework for creating your science communication strategy.
As pandemic restrictions lift, researchers stress the need to prepare for the next variant
Experts are predicting demand for life-saving antiviral drugs will rapidly outpace supply. Like the vaccine, the poorest countries will be left until last, says medicine access advocate Othoman Mellouk
Some 15 countries, including Switzerland, have proposed the creation of a "Science-Policy Panel" to deal with chemical waste and plastic pollution.
The data-sharing policy could set a global standard for biomedical research, scientists say, but they have questions about logistics and equity.
Small interventions that influence people's behavior can be tested. But the real world requires big, hard-to-measure changes too, scientists say.
Public perceptions of climate change, the future cost and effectiveness of climate mitigation and technologies, and how political institutions respond to public pressure are all important determinants of how climate will change, according to a new study.
The right to a healthy environment and a safe climate for all should be on the agenda for the proposed Citizens' Assembly.
Let data guide discussions on equality, say Juliana Hipólito and Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas.
Researchers say that conflict will hinder progress made since Ukraine's revolution in 2014.
Evolution favors less work and more leisure.
Discussions are underway in Brussels over whether Russia should be cut out of future Horizon Europe projects after president Vladimir Putin recognised two separatist-held parts of Ukraine as sovereign states and requested permission from parliament to send in troops on a mission.
Peer reviewing helped a graduate student to finally gain a sense of belonging within the research community.
Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.
Spain has set out to improve the lives of its researchers after years of hand to mouth existence and a brain drain that has significantly weakened the public research sector. A reform of a 2011 law will see young researchers getting permanent contracts, recognition of experience gained abroad and new labour rights. At the same time, there will be increased public spending on research.
Cosmologist Katie Mack shares tips for spotting and combating physics falsehoods online.
Scientific collaboration has become a casualty of Switzerland's and the United Kingdom's tussles with the European Union.
Why international researchers should be lining up to collaborate with women working in science across Africa.
Elsevier's work with fossil fuel companies 'drags us towards disaster', climate researcher says.
The history of the scientific enterprise demonstrates that it has supported gender, identity, and racial inequity. To reverse this situation, the scientific community must reexamine its values and then collectively embark upon a moonshot-level new agenda for equity.
Engaging citizens in research will be a big priority for the new Horizon Europe funding programme. Horizon Europe includes a €2 million research call for recommendations to strengthen societal trust in science, research and innovation, while the programme is also seeking to encourage more public participation in scientific research.
Scientists from the World Economic Forum's Young Scientists community want to see the social value of scientific research better recognised and acknowledged. Published today by Frontiers Policy Labs, a call has been signed by 52 scholars from some of the world's foremost academic institutions. The signatories say that for science to become rooted in decision-making, a new culture of engagement between policymakers and scientists needs to be established.
