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.

How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?

Trump's experience is a world away from the stressful waiting game most patients wade through after a positive test.

As coronavirus wreaks havoc on existing structures, we take a look at some visions for cities of the future - and how they hold up

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.

Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.

Research ministers have agreed to more aggressively police foreign participation in the EU's research programme, adding a new provision to Horizon Europe that is aimed primarily at preventing China and the US from getting access to sensitive European research.

A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up selection of the most effective shots.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the second major US funder to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication.

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows.

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the "infodemic."

It's not R. But unless you’ve been reading scientific journals, you’re less likely to have encountered k, the measure of the dispersion of the virus.

Techniques such as inclusive teaching can inspire “hyperpersistence”.