President and lawmakers push proposals to add technology directorate and boost budget.

A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.

Search-engine co-founder Anurag Acharya explains why it now tells authors when their papers should be made free to read.

President's infrastructure plan would boost spending at several federal research agencies.

Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It's worth wondering, though, how a person or machine devoid of experience could reflect on experience it doesn’t have.

Loss of grants, driven by deep cuts to foreign aid, threatens research and international collaborations.

Divers practicing blackwater photography are helping marine scientists gain new insights into fish larvae.

Did Covid-19 come from animal markets? It's unclear. Did it emerge from a lab? Also unclear. Here's what a new W.H.O. report says - including questions that the agency's own chief raised about the findings.

The pandemic is not a competition between companies and will not end without more-equal distribution of coronavirus vaccines.

For the moment, reports of a very rare, dangerous blood disorder among recipients cannot be ignored.

Scientists say the conclusions make sense but note that supporters of the lab-leak theory are unlikely to be satisfied.

Risks shoot up when virus particles accumulate in buildings, but it's not clear how best to improve ventilation.

Mega-constellations could cause scientists to miss out on crucial discoveries, warn researchers.

Lifesaving research on fighting drought and climate change at risk after snap decision to halt crucial funding.

"Open Editors" & "Open Syllabus" are two interesting datasets obtained from wide scale web scraping due to lack of structured , machine readable data

In an outstanding collaborative success, 25 of Australia’s 42 universities are coming together to develop a framework to bring consistency to the management of research data across the university sector.

After a staff member dismissed racism as a problem in medicine on a podcast, a petition signed by thousands demanded a review of editorial processes at the journal.

A special report outlines the challenges - from unleashing the power of mRNA vaccines, to the battle for temporary intellectual-property relief.

Talented black graduates are being shut out of academic careers in science and technology, according to the president of the Royal Society, who appealed to the scientific community to improve access.

Critics say redundancies are being decided using unreliable measures related to funding and citations, highlighting broader unease about the use of metrics in science.

The two initiatives are continuing their joint efforts to increase the diversity of voices in scholarly review.

Within the scope of the Career Tracker Cohorts study, postdocs were surveyed in order to learn more about potential changes in their work routines, effects on their research, and their own assessment of the impact the pandemic would have on their careers. 

Global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets - the truth we found in the gap between perception and reality

2021 marks four years of publishing on Gates Open Research, now the 2nd most popular publication venue for Gates-funded researchers. In this blog post, Ashley Farley, Program Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the publishing activity for the last year and the platform's growth in popularity and size.

Results confirming the vaccine's strong protection against COVID-19 were welcomed following last week's pause in roll-outs - but fresh questions have now emerged about the data.

Today, we are adding a Public access section to Scholar profiles to help you track and manage public access mandates for your articles.

Exclusive: users are allowed to praise mass killers and 'violent non-state actors' in certain situations

Experts reveal 'cautious excitement' over unstable particles that fail to decay as standard model suggests

The three of us took a break from our PhD programmes for a stint that enriched our CVs and improved our chances of career success.

A new study illuminates the complex array of neurological issues experienced by people months after their coronavirus infections.