Effort aims to identify what's ethical and legal-and what's not.

Prominent evolutionary biologist is the second to be removed from prestigious group for sexual misconduct.

New head of Science Advice for Policy by European Academies is the President of ALLEA, and a fellow of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

Remains with combination of Neanderthal and early human features date back 100,000 years.

Switzerland has been excluded from a provisional list of third countries eligible for Horizon Europe funding.

How scientists are perfecting the art of boiling down their work into a short, sharp hit.

An external analysis of 15 years of stories finds men quoted more than twice as often as women.

A global movement of younger researchers is making its mark. Science must listen and learn from its next generation.

In this study, a novelty indicator to quantify the degree of citation similarity between a focal paper and a pre-existing same-domain paper from various fields in the natural sciences is applied by proposing a new way of identifying papers that fall into the same domain of focal papers using bibliometric data only. 

Quantum mechanics seems to have a problem with the order of time, which might signal the need for an entirely new type of law.

Change.org effort that says 'billionaires should not exist' has gathered tens of thousands of signatures

The University of Oxford said on Wednesday it was testing anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19, as part of a British government-backed study that aims to aid recoveries in non-hospital settings.

University of Queensland researchers have found a bacteria-killing compound in the toxins of mottled cup moth caterpillars

Two-thirds of the world's rainforests have been wiped out or degraded, according to a 2020 analysis.

More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease.

Leaders in the South Bay are trying out a radical new approach to designing climate solutions.

While men over 50 tend to suffer the most acute symptoms of coronavirus, women who get long Covid outnumber men by as much as four to one

Around the world, dozens of ingenious projects are trying to 'trick' the ocean into absorbing more CO2. But critics warn of unforeseen consequences

International financial institutions say that vaccines are the highest-return investment on Earth - it is past time for them to pay up.

As the first national network of early-career researchers marks its 21st birthday, the founders of Hungary's describe how and why they set up theirs in 2019.

An area where researchers can gather and informally discuss ideas is the best way to produce innovative inventions, argues Ethan N. Gotian.

It's got a bigger space budget than ever before but does the EU have the necessary ambition to match?

Scientists in Germany believe they may have worked out a way to prevent vector-based vaccines from causing rare blood clots.

Boris Johnson says the country will be able to "breathe life into more breakthroughs".

Our three new groups have met this challenge by producing high-quality screenings, reviews and summaries of key findings, and Sciety has brought them all together in one convenient and accessible place.

Research found marked differences in immune response of medical staff six months after contracting virus.

Scientists from agency and Noaa say Earth's 'energy imbalance' roughly doubled from 2005 to 2019 in 'alarming' way.

New body will foster evidence-informed decision-making and awareness programmes for the public

Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics?

Horizon Europe, the EU's new €95.5 billion R&D programme, is finally underway. It is starting more than five months late - a record even by Brussels' dilatory standards. But what's in it?