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

A Wikimedia initiative to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. WikiCite is a series of conferences and workshops in support of that goal.

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.

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.