Developed by Australian and European researchers, the film works by converting infrared light into light visible to the human eye

Gemma Derrick revisits calls for a better research culture.

A research team that set sail for the Arctic has warned that the tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered.

Studies and surveys confirm that during the COVID-19 pandemic, women's workload at home has increased. Does that mean women researchers are also submitting fewer proposals to the SNSF? Analyses show that, with one exception, their share has remained stable.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs says "forced" consensus on climate change is not favorable to Russia.

Obstacles to finalising association agreements for EU's research programme now removed, say continental observers.

Parliamentary resolution seen as culmination of a campaign against gender, race and migration scholarship.

Mass vaccination drives in several countries are providing new data on the extent to which adult vaccination protects children - but the conclusions are mixed.

The pandemic forced science museums to reach out to their communities, and some built a wider following.

The annual European Research and Innovation Days bring together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.

Florida has become the latest state to ban critical race theory, continuing the growing charge by Republican lawmakers against schools teaching about systemic racism.

Nature examines arguments that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China, and the science behind them.

Australian scientists develop a microscope that works with 35% more clarity, raising hope for improvements in medical imaging.

Europe’s research labs scrambled to make the best use of their resources and offered remote access for researchers during the pandemic. Some of these changes are set to become a permanent feature.

Professor Tim Whitmarsh looks at the origins of classics as an academic discipline and how it is studied in the 21st century.

Professor Heino Falcke discusses how our discovery of the black hole feeds our hunger for looking further, for collaboration, and for hope.

Scientific publishing needs to stop treating error-checking as a slightly inconvenient side note and make it a core part of academic research.

There are significant gaps in what teachers in Ghana know about ozone depletion and climate change, even though these subjects are in the science curriculum.

This evidence snapshot represents just the tip of the iceberg of the many studies of climate change that have seen climate change transition from a scientific curiosity to a global environmental, socioeconomic, political, and technological grand challenge.

Lake Constance forms a natural border between Germany, Austria and Switzerland - and its ecosystem is changing. Newly arrived aggressive residents include spiny-cheek crayfish, zebra mussels and killer shrimp. Will they displace native species?

Pressing global challenges including the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, food security and future global health crises will require collaboration.

Postdocs and PhD students around the world require professional training to prepare them for a possible career outside academia, finds the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

A cookie-cutter strategy to reform science will cause resentment, not improvement.

Juno passed within 645 miles of Ganymede, the closest any spacecraft has come to the moon since 2000.

Researchers from Israel, Switzerland, Britain and other non-EU countries may be allowed to join the EU's quantum and space research projects, under a deal between representatives of member states and the European Commission reached this week. The agreement could end months of uncertainties around international participation in sensitive R&D projects in Horizon Europe, the EU's new €95.5 billion R&D programme.

Discrimination and harassment violate scientific integrity – but the damage they do goes beyond that.

Move comes after concerns from diplomats that Britain was being treated as if it posed a similar risk to China.

Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects.

Federal spending on research is about to get a boost | United States

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