Preventing hot spots of COVID-19 transmission has emerged as a key challenge in the fight against the virus

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's six-figure donation is a step towards addressing racial injustice in the sciences.

It's full of tricks and optical illusions.

Should publishers track the ethnicity of the researchers contributing to their platforms?

The first draft text of the UNECSO Open Science Recommendation is currently open for comments.

Nations are increasingly turning to citizens' assemblies to weigh up climate policies.

A dedicated brokerage event for entities looking for opportunities to involve Social Sciences and Humanities institutions in EU H2020 Green Deal calls.

The extraordinary effort to speed the development of treatments and vaccines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put into sharp relief the need for the global science community to share scientific data openly.

The shift to virtual conferences needs to be accompanied by a sensitivity to people in different time zones.

Proof of significant amounts of H2O has implications for future lunar missions.

Experts say it's normal for levels of antibodies to drop after clearing an infection, and that they represent just one arm of the immune response against a virus.

New research found 'autoantibodies' similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases.

Exclusive: expedition discovers new source of greenhouse gas off East Siberian coast has been triggered.

The administration is imposing new limits on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would undercut action against global warming.

Black workers at universities are among the most vulnerable people on campuses. But they often are left out of conversations about racial justice.

The agreement will allow authors at eligible German institutes to publish papers for fee of about £8500 each

The recent nature issue publishes findings from leading researchers on an urgent quest for a vaccine against SARS-Cov-2. Here ist how the cover image was created, drawing on aspects of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s famous notebooks to reimagine the quest for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.

The ageny may be exploring the idea of using expanded access - a more limiting program - in the early days of Covid vaccine rollouts.

Sector calls for compromise to ensure UK researchers stay in Horizon Europe.

Europe's political shake-up is approaching - for researchers, key factors such as immigration and funding hang in the balance.

The author is engaged in a project that seeks to convert publishers to business models that will allow them to publish their books openly, without using unaffordable book processing charges (which authors hate and which will not scale). As of today, the first press to take the leap: the Central European University Press can be announced. The model is called “Opening the Future”.

This year's open access week will be talking to a number of researchers.

Unchecked ivermectin use in region is making it difficult to test anti-parasite drug's effectiveness against the coronavirus.

During a pandemic, more researchers might require support from colleagues and depend on those partnerships to collect the data they need to keep their labs operational. The article presents guidelines for collaborations.

The disruptions caused by COVID-19 have led to an acceleration in the digitization of all major aspects of life - and has brought to light who the laggards are, and who leads the charge.

Most Americans view politics as two camps bickering endlessly and fruitlessly over unimportant issues.

President Trump, a congressman and conspiracy fantasists have repeated the myth. But three kinds of evidence point to more than 218,000 U.S. deaths.

From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most insidious false claims about the pandemic

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The world's best solar power schemes now offer the "cheapest…electricity in history" with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.