After COVID-19 researchers on the East Coast received a package containing an "unknown substance," the University of Washington told 500 of its staff to be on alert.

EMBL will hold a virtual conference, 'The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women in science: Challenges and solutions' on 9 September.

UKs Labour Party calls on health secretary to explain reasons behind increase and testing centre problems.

The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies.

Test results in 24 hours, temperature checks at every store, no fights over masks.

The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.

Research suggests musicians can reduce infections by decreasing volume.

The Boston university dismissed the students they were caught gathering at a hotel.

Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it.

Explore the first ever forest soundmap of the world.

A growing body of research is raising concerns about the cardiac consequences of the coronavirus.

Seventy-six wealthy nations are now committed to joining a global COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to help buy and fairly distribute the shots, the project's co-lead said on Wednesday.

Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers' background causes concern about unfair accusations.

Science has issued an expression of concern for a paper it published earlier this summer after readers pointed out suspect images in the work.

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.

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

Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, discusses challenges and politics of approving a vaccine before the election.

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

Research suggests stomach trouble more predictive of virus in young people than a cough.

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

Countries seek new coronavirus strategies as COVID-19 surges across the continent again

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

Lecturers say cases may soar as students move in, but ministers insist institutions are prepared.

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?

Journals hoping that Clarivate Analytics - the company behind the Impact Factor - would reverse their decision to suppress their titles from the closely watched metric.

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.

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

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.

Comprehensive study suggests vaccine may not work as well for overweight people.

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