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As AI gets more talkative, designers need to consider the ethics of gendering not just voices, but the finer nuances of speech patterns.

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Conservative MPs have voted against an amendment that would have required the government to negotiate continuing full membership of the EU's Erasmus+ programme, which helps students study in other countries.

Taylor & Francis has acquired open research publisher F1000 Research from its founder Vitek Tracz. The acquisition sum was not disclosed.

The European Union's new innovation chief, Mariya Gabriel, wants to "revitalise" efforts to create a real single market for research, education and innovation, bridging the performance gap between eastern and western Europe.

Springer Nature and Max Planck Digial Library on behalf of Projekt DEAL announce that the formal contract for the world’s largest transformative Open Access (OA) agreement to date has been signed.

Florida lawmakers have begun an investigation into the foreign ties of researchers at the state’s universities and research institutions. The inquiry dovetails with an ongoing federal probe into whether such affiliations, notably with Chinese entities, pose a risk to the U.S. research enterprise.

Chinese researchers say a novel coronavirus likely sickened 59 people in Wuhan.

The European Union's top research official telegraphed a message to the UK's Brexit negotiators: When it comes to a post-Brexit deal on research cooperation, there can be "no cherry picking."

Ivy Anderson and Jeff MacKie-Mason, who co-chair the team overseeing UC's publisher negotiations strategy, have provided the following response to a recent open letter in which a number of commercial and society journal publishers voiced their opposition to a policy, rumored to be under discussion by the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, that would require federally funded research be made freely available to the public immediately upon publication, rather than within 12 months as current policy stipulates.  The University of California believes the public should have access to publicly-funded research, freely and immediately upon publication. We are deeply …

Academy commission's probe of domestic journals causes "conflict and tension".

Science chats with two experts about what future paleontologists-or perhaps even visiting aliens-might find.

Protect time for deep thinking - it is crucial for productivity in a world of constant interaction, urges Heidi Rehm.

Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. So, what do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think will they benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let's see what physicist Toma Susi has to say.

Widely expected Plan S-style order hailed as 'major boost' to global movement

For years, scientists poured their hearts into work to develop vaccines. And, for years, they saw promising work smash up against unscalable walls.

The UK prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings wants scientific approaches to inform government - but researchers worry his view is simplistic.

A tool that focuses on papers - not researcher behaviour - can help readers, editors and institutions assess which publications to trust.

A Nobel laureate is being praised for retracting a scientific paper that was not reproducible.

In a stinging rebuke of the Trump administration’s handling of science, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advisory panel has found major shortcomings in the agency’s pursuit of key regulatory rollbacks.

Hospitals trial intelligent machines to improve cancer detection and results so far are promising.

If you're working on a research project in biology, you'll need citations in the life sciences. But what is life science? Here's a guide for researchers.

Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays.

Let 2020 be the year in which we value those who ensure that science is self-correcting.

A climate scientist wonders if the Earth system has now breached a tipping point.

How has peer review fared in the 2010s? We outline some key trends that have helped to define, challenge and progress the peer review system over the decade.

In three years, the administration has diminished the role of science in policymaking while disrupting research projects nationwide. Experts say the effects could be felt for years.

The organizers of an international biology meeting asked psychologists to assess their attempts at retaining the advantages of traditional conferences.

MORE THAN 135 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING ORGANIZATIONS JOIN TOGETHER IN OPPOSITION  TO PROPOSED ADMINISTRATION POLICY FORCING IMMEDIATE FREE DISTRIBUTION OF PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Proposed Policy Would Undermine American Science, Research, Intellectual Property, and Global Competitiveness.