With a push from students and alumni, the university faced up to a legacy of support for eugenics. As it renames buildings and programmes, can its story serve as a model for others?

Women often face institutional and cultural barriers to success in science. These resources aim to highlight and advise on how women and their allies can grow their research careers.

This post is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry. 

As the pandemic continues, researchers are coming to terms with what they've learnt and lost so far, finds Nature's global survey.

Scientists who worked on the original UN climate convention doubt that COP26 will deliver for low income countries.

Puerto Rico has an underfunded health care system, high levels of poverty and its infrastructure remains devastated by a major hurricane that swept through the island in 2017.

The latest bounty of 35 events features oddball black holes and a miniature neutron star.

Agency says funding issues, along with delays tied to Bezos legal challenge, will push back first landing in a half century

At first, no one looked twice at the new variant. Detected in South Africa in January 2021, the novel coronavirus lineage, called C.1, appeared similar to other variants. 

The first female astronaut of color was African-American Mae Jemison - 30 years after the first men and white women flew in space.

After years of bickering, Washington and Brussels appear to be patching up a disagreement over American researchers participating in the EU's big R&D programmes.

Ancient rock forms suggest world's first stable cratons rose above sea level more than 3bn years ago

Hundreds of junk-science papers have been retracted from reputable journals after fraudsters used 'special issues' to manipulate the publication process. And the problem is growing.

You always knew demonstrating empathy is positive for people, but new research demonstrates its importance for everything from innovation to retention.

Fast Grants aimed to solve the slowness of the scientific grant evaluation procedure in several ways. This wasn’t business as usual. It was Operation Warp Speed for science.

Poll of 10 countries including US, UK, France and Germany finds people prioritising measures that are already habits.

Influential US Astro2020 panel recommends a space-based telescope operating from ultraviolet to near infra-red to be launched in the mid-2040s.

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) are to join the Bill Gates Breakthrough Energy initiative, in a €820 million deal intended to put some impetus behind the scale-up of critical climate technologies developed in the EU and create markets for them.

Research and university associations from across Europe have sent a letter to the European Commission calling for the UK to become associated in Horizon Europe without delay.

Kathleen Stock announces resignation as university says 'no substantive allegations of wrongdoing' were made against her.

The association of public and government-recognized universities in Germany, the German Rectors' Conference or Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK), along with several other higher education organizations, have been urging the future government in Germany to focus on crucial issues related to student support, research, and more. 

In a bid to stave off looming disaster, scientists are trying to repurpose drugs used for malaria and other diseases, but infrastructure and recruitment challenges hinder progress.

Have scientists failed to tell the story of climate change? Do fiction writers do it better? A climate scientist and science fiction writer in conversation.

An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.

A Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate-science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetimes.

The country's relaxation of measures such as masking - especially in England - is showing the limits of relying on vaccines alone.

Sponsoring someone is not a one-off act. Their success is your success, so support them throughout the process.

CBC investigation into Carrie Bourassa has drawn comparisons with case of Rachel Dolezal in US

The Health Argument for Climate Action. The 10 recommendations in the COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health propose a set of priority actions from the global health community to governments and policy makers, calling on them to act with urgency on the current climate and health crises. The recommendations were developed in consultation with over 150 organisations and 400 experts and health professionals. They are intended to inform governments and other stakeholders ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to highlight various opportunities for governments to prioritise health and equity in the international climate movement and sustainable development agenda. Each recommendation comes with a selection of resources and case studies to help inspire and guide policymakers and practitioners in implementing the suggested solutions.

Science Network community and partnerships manager Melissa Varga shares her rundown of recent student voter data-it's good news for democracy.