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Mauro Ferrari joins EU organisation at a delicate moment but says his focus is on identifying 'breakthrough people'.

Mr. Greenwald is accused of being part of a "criminal investigation" that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials.

What chief academic officers think about the academic health of their institutions, the role of tenure, general education and much more.

Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.

Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes.

Up to £200,000 per society available for flagging important biomedical research outputs.

A man in Washington State is infected with a new respiratory virus. Federal officials plan to expand screenings for the infection at major airports.

China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.

Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.

McGill professor resigns over university's repeated votes to keep investing in fossil fuels.

The WHO's annnouncement came as China confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, as well as a confirmed incident involving human-to-human spread.

Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.

Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression.

Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.

Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.

This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.

Twin disasters marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth's great extinctions.

We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.

PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.

The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.

A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment

Stay organized to help spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves!

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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.

The post-World War II model for organizing science remains powerful, but moving beyond its limits will be necessary for assuring the contributions of science to solving a wide array of challenges.

Funders driving open-access plan may use template to push for pricing transparency.

Thirty Meter Telescope controversy is forcing scientists to grapple with how their research affects Indigenous peoples.

The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.