Crocodilians engage in all three main types of play distinguished by behavior specialists: locomotor play, play with objects and social play. Crocodiles have also been seen playing with other animals. 

Russian researchers are losing access to vital lab equipment and computing power as western sanctions against the country begin to bite, potentially crippling Russia's scientific base.

Build a major genomics resource on the continent to help breeders and conservationists.

The UK has extended its funding guarantee for Horizon Europe applicants until the end of the year, providing a measure of security for researchers caught in limbo by the country's failure to associate to the programme. 

Hundreds of trials have been disrupted in the medical research hub. Some patients are at risk of losing their last chance at survival.

Research-reform advocates must beware unintended consequences.

As the world cuts Russia off from more and more joint research and innovation projects following its invasion of Ukraine, there's been deafening silence from the ITER megaproject that is seeking to demonstrate the potential of nuclear fusion by building the world's largest tokamak in south west France.

Russia says Ukraine and its allies are planning a "dirty" weapons attack. The US says that's false. But what are these weapons and who has them?

Although we know binge drinking is harmful for our health, the science behind moderate drinking still needs some fleshing out.

Mark Vande Hei, who is set to break the US single spaceflight record, will be riding a Russian capsule back to EarthRussia-Ukraine war.

Samples collected by Chang'e-5 are revealing exciting insights into the Moon's evolution.

Racism is "pervasive" in chemical sciences, according to an investigation by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Plan S architect, scourge of paywalls, reveals how the policy sausage got made.

Most titles are still considering manuscripts irrespective of nationality - but Russia plans to remove a requirement for scientists to publish in foreign titles.

AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, eLife, PREreview, and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) invite nominations for researchers in the fields of life sciences and medicine who will help co-create and then disseminate resources promoting best open peer-review practices in Africa.

EU research ministers signed a declaration laying out common principles and values for international cooperation in research and innovation in Marseille on Monday, but these rules arrive as the rapid pace of geopolitical change threatens to render them useless in selecting scientific collaborators from outside the EU.

Fights over who invented the gene-editing technology are becoming more complex, and could carry on for years.

Researchers hide ancient weapons and bat skulls, and upload massive sets of data to international servers.

The particle physics lab CERN has become the latest organisation to suspend scientific links with Russia because of the Ukraine war.

The future of international space cooperation is being put to the test, as tensions mount between Russia and the rest of the world.

As Ukrainian refugee numbers mount, universities in Europe are starting to grapple with how best to help the Ukrainian academic community.

The European University Association (EUA) has suspended 12 Russian universities whose rectors signed a statement supporting president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and parroting the Kremlin's justification for the assault.

In 2022 women are playing a greater role in Australia’s research effort, and have more influence over science policy, than ever before. Even though women do sit at the very top, their representation at other levels of the research pyramid is out of balance.

The Academic Freedom Index (AFI) 2022 reveals that almost two out of five people worldwide live in countries where academic freedom has declined substantially during the past ten years.

Most academics back research boycott but is there a case for maintaining ties?

Two years into the pandemic, the idea of "following the science" has oversimplified what's actually a complex array of factors that policymakers must weigh in formulating a response. Many other factors play into making pandemic policy.

Papers are a key currency for academic careers. LGBQ academic scientists who don’t disclose their sexual orientation in the workplace publish fewer papers than their out or non-LGBQ peers.

The European Commission has suspended payments to Russian institutions involved in EU-funded research and innovation projects. In addition, the EU will not launch any new cooperation projects with Russian universities, research institutes and companies.

Science in Ukraine has come to a halt. Russia's invasion has crippled the country's newly established research agency and forced its leader to a bomb shelter in Kyiv.

Governments, universities and individual academics across Europe over are being forced to choose whether to cut research ties with Russia after Moscow shocked the scientific community with its assault on Ukraine. Germany, Russia's second biggest research collaborator after the US, has said it will halt all scientific cooperation, while the UK is reviewing its links.