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This Practical Guide provides guidance to ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of research data, and supports organisations to provide a framework in which researchers can share their output in a sustainable way.

Prolonged discussions about associate status and the breakdown of negotiations on EU-Switzerland relations has left Swiss universities bracing for potential exclusion from the €95.5 billion programme. 

Stunning images as Nasa's Perseverance continues its mission to seek signs of past microbial life.

The responsibility for better culture lies with the workplace itself. Reporting on burnout and the future of work, this article explores lasting shifts in workplace culture.

Pathways to Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: The SHAPE-ID Toolkit. Join us on 10 June for our final event and the launch of our project toolkit, which offers tools and resources to help researchers, research organisations, funders, policymakers, and societal partners make informed decisions about developing and supporting inter- and transdisciplinary research.

From Alpha to Omega, the labelling system aims to avoid confusion and stigmatization.

2022 spending request would boost civilian but cut defense research

We ask prominent scholars to select a visual artifact of this time that will help future researchers understand the Covid-19 crisis.

I can't see them. Therefore they're not real." From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged in February 2019 from Fox & Friends presenter Pete Hegseth, who was referring to … germs. 

More than 6,000 buildings in Maceió condemned and research suggests more subsidence to come

EU research ministers on Friday committed to enhance the attractiveness of research careers and improve brain circulation in Europe, and are calling on member states and the European Commission to take a common approach. That will include setting up an EU system to track mobility of talent, assess working conditions and promote gender and intergenerational equality.

A task force will share data it collected on unusual flight phenomena with Congress. UFO enthusiasts rejoice. But a German expert with decades of research under his belt doesn't believe aliens have ever been to Earth.

Researchers say the complaint filed against Elisabeth Bik could have a 'chilling effect' on scholarly criticism.

The nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions.

Spain needs to set out a wider and clear OS strategy and take decisive, coordinated actions that build upon and improve existing structures to bring itself back to the forefront of OS.

It could take years to reveal the true impact of closed borders, cancelled travel plans and vaccine delays.

Nearly 1,000 respondents to a US survey urge careful thought about future professional pathways.

Institutional affiliations of panellists seem to skew European Research Council decisions - especially in the life sciences.

Rivalry between China and other countries could diminish global scientific collaboration - just when it is most needed.

The SAT is falling out of favor, but a study looking at essays suggests "soft factors" have their own issues.

Scans show some brains have a stronger link between the part that processes sound and that which controls the mouth and throat

Bedford-based blimp maker unveils routes it hopes to serve by 2025 cutting carbon footprint of flying by 90%

Nearly 900 universities, research organisations, and funding agencies want science publishers to be more transparent and abide by open access rules, after scientists complained their submissions are rejected if they apply a public copyright licence to accepted manuscripts.

As the pandemic worsened in the United Kingdom during spring 2020, political disputes turned in a strange direction. The UK government started to claim that the UK’s Covid-19 statistics could not be compared with any other country.

Prof. Liselotte Højgaard shares her first impressions as a new member of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC) and explains what makes the ERC so important for long-term frontier research.

WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel Facebook's (FB.O) messaging app to break privacy protections, sources said.

Black people in the US are subject to double the level of heat stress in cities than whites.

Virtual Conference: Academia in times of crises.