Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been 'strangely silent' about masculinity in academia.

Open Access (OA) is central to the UK Government’s ambitions for research and innovation. Public funders are reviewing their OA policies and working collaboratively to understand how to take forward the Government’s ambitions.

Analysis at Dutch university suggests researchers are not reporting a large number of animal experiments.

Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability. But despite the benefits, barriers to reviewing and curating preprints remain.

How the world's greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

A week-long event aimed to shine a spotlight on Black contributions to cancer medicine, research and patient advocacy.

Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures to keep from falling apart.

Cambridge University study also suggests older people less likely to believe coronavirus misinformation.

The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), initiated in 2009, is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project that runs on open-source software. It captures news and comment on open access (OA) to research in every academic field and region of the world.

A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.

Bar-tailed godwit flies more than 12,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days.

A camera-trap image of an Amur tiger takes the grand prize at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020.

Study instead suggests people are initially attracted to those with similar features to themselves.

Scientists identify a species that appears to absorb potentially lethal UV radiation and emit blue light.

Should academic science reconsider the definition of success?

A case in Nevada has spurred new concerns that people who have recovered from the infection may still be vulnerable. That's unlikely, experts say.

Prizewinners developed auction formats used in markets for electricity, carbon credits, and radio spectrum allocation.

Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.

Beijing joins initiative against 'vaccine nationalism' in contrast to US, which is not part of alliance.

This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as "miracles coming down from God." If that's true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.

Editors at the world's leading medical journal said the Trump administration "took a crisis and turned it into a tragedy."

Commissioner Mariya Gabriel today welcomes seven experts as members of the Search Committee for the next President of the ERC.

In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic - and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.

Doctors face reprimands for wearing masks as researchers consider leaving the country. 

There's a lot of talk of scientists divided over Covid-19, but when you look at the evidence any so-called divide starts to evaporate.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.

Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.

Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.

With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.

For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.