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Twelve ERC Starting Grants for ETH Zurich

Twelve ERC Starting Grants for ETH Zurich

ETH has been highly successful in the awarding of this year’s ERC Starting Grants for young researchers, with the European Research Council (ERC) approving a total of CHF 21.4 million in funding for 12 ETH project submissions.

Streamline Your Writing - and Collaborations - with These Reference Managers

Streamline Your Writing - and Collaborations - with These Reference Managers

A suite of tools can help researchers to manage citations for grants and papers, and share those references with colleagues.

EU Budget Would Be 'disastrous' for Research

EU Budget Would Be 'disastrous' for Research

Sixteen thousand academics urge EU leaders to increase investment over the next seven years.

These Scientists Are Giving Themselves D.I.Y. Coronavirus Vaccines

These Scientists Are Giving Themselves D.I.Y. Coronavirus Vaccines

Impatient for a coronavirus vaccine, dozens of scientists around the world are giving themselves - and sometimes, friends and family - their own unproven versions.

More Testing Alone Will Not Get Us out of This Pandemic

More Testing Alone Will Not Get Us out of This Pandemic

Inequities and other social realities must be factored into diagnoses and tracing of COVID-19.

How the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine is Getting Dirty

How the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine is Getting Dirty

Scientists worldwide are working against the clock to find a viable coronavirus vaccine - but are corners being cut for the sake of political gain and profit?

Publishers, Are You Ready to ROR? - Crossref

Publishers, Are You Ready to ROR? - Crossref

Author affiliations, and the ability to link them to publications and other scholarly outputs, are vital for numerous stakeholders across the research landscape. With the launch of the Research Organization Registry (ROR) in 2019 (which Crossref has helped to develop), the landscape is changing. ROR IDs are an opportunity to make affiliation details easier for publishers to use and easier for those who rely on this data.

How Satellite 'megaconstellations' Will Photobomb Astronomy Images

How Satellite 'megaconstellations' Will Photobomb Astronomy Images

Most detailed report yet about the impact of giant satellite clusters says damage to observations is unavoidable.

The Limitation Initiative is Harmful to Education, Research and Innovation

The Limitation Initiative is Harmful to Education, Research and Innovation

The ETH Board, swissuniversities, the Swiss National Science Foundation, Innosuisse – the Swiss Innovation Agency, and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences reject the Limitation Initiative. They organised a joint press call in order to state their views on the Limitation Initiative and affirm the importance of research cooperation with Europe.

So Much Tear Gas Has Been Sprayed on Portland Protesters That Officials Fear It's Polluted the Water

So Much Tear Gas Has Been Sprayed on Portland Protesters That Officials Fear It's Polluted the Water

Tear gas from the near-nightly sieges in Portland may be trickling into the Willamette River, officials fear.

Four Scenarios on How We Might Develop Immunity to Covid-19

Four Scenarios on How We Might Develop Immunity to Covid-19

As the world wearies of trying to suppress the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many of us are wondering what the future will look like as we try to learn to live with it.

Top US Virus Expert Warns on Fast-tracking Vaccine

Top US Virus Expert Warns on Fast-tracking Vaccine

US President Donald Trump reportedly is considering skipping regulatory steps to get out a vaccine.

Redwoods Survive Wildfire at California's Oldest State Park

Redwoods Survive Wildfire at California's Oldest State Park

When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old...

Some People Can Get the Pandemic Virus Twice, a Study Suggests. That is No Reason to Panic

Some People Can Get the Pandemic Virus Twice, a Study Suggests. That is No Reason to Panic

A man in Hong Kong was found to be reinfected with COVID-19, but what that means for vaccines and immunity is unclear

Biogen Conference Likely Led to 20,000 COVID-19 Cases in Boston Area, Researchers Say

Biogen Conference Likely Led to 20,000 COVID-19 Cases in Boston Area, Researchers Say

A new study shows the Biogen conference held at Boston's Marriott Long Wharf hotel in February played a far greater role in spreading the coronavirus than previously thought.

Why the United States is Having a Coronavirus Data Crisis

Why the United States is Having a Coronavirus Data Crisis

Political meddling and years of neglect of public-health data management mean the country is flying blind.

ELife Launches Executable Research Articles for Publishing Computationally Reproducible Results

ELife Launches Executable Research Articles for Publishing Computationally Reproducible Results

Authors with a published eLife paper can now enrich their work with embedded code blocks and computed outputs to make their results more transparent, interactive and reproducible.

FDA, Under Pressure, Authorizes Blood Plasma As Covid-19 Treatment

FDA, Under Pressure, Authorizes Blood Plasma As Covid-19 Treatment

The decision could generate intense controversy inside the administration and the broader scientific community because of a dearth of reliable data.

Grad Students Challenge University-mandated COVID-19 Agreements

Grad Students Challenge University-mandated COVID-19 Agreements

"We don't … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we're just scared because we know it could," one student says

Money for Nothing: German University Offers 'idleness Grants'

Money for Nothing: German University Offers 'idleness Grants'

A German university is offering “idleness grants” to applicants who are seriously committed to doing sweet nothing.This indolence project is a serious look at societal values of success versus sustainability, says Hamburg arts college.