Privately funded Toliman telescope to be launched into low-earth orbit to search Alpha Centauri star system.

Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.

Let's not beat around the bush: science policy is political.

University and College Union general secretary says sector leaders who focused on turnout were 'not listening to a consistent message that staff have been delivering to them'.

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Hundreds of junk-science papers have been retracted from reputable journals after fraudsters used 'special issues' to manipulate the publication process.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