Saliva could be the key to a faster, cheaper, safer test.

As the world wearies of trying to suppress the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many of us are wondering what the future will look like as we try to learn to live with it.

A new star has been born on the academic Nordic journal scene: the Journal of Digital Social Research, launched last year. We talked to the editor-in-chief Simon Lindgren from Umeå University.

US President Donald Trump reportedly is considering skipping regulatory steps to get out a vaccine.

When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old...

A man in Hong Kong was found to be reinfected with COVID-19, but what that means for vaccines and immunity is unclear

A new study shows the Biogen conference held at Boston's Marriott Long Wharf hotel in February played a far greater role in spreading the coronavirus than previously thought.

Political meddling and years of neglect of public-health data management mean the country is flying blind.

Businesses and entrepreneurs are racing to deploy blockchain technology against all manner of problems, and perceived opportunities.

Authors with a published eLife paper can now enrich their work with embedded code blocks and computed outputs to make their results more transparent, interactive and reproducible.

The decision could generate intense controversy inside the administration and the broader scientific community because of a dearth of reliable data.

"We don't … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we're just scared because we know it could," one student says

Women's journal submission rates fell as their caring responsibilities jumped due to COVID-19. Without meaningful interventions, the trend is likely to continue.

A German university is offering “idleness grants” to applicants who are seriously committed to doing sweet nothing.This indolence project is a serious look at societal values of success versus sustainability, says Hamburg arts college.

China’s science ministry is set to introduce its most comprehensive rules so far for dealing with research misconduct. The measures, which come into effect next month, outline what constitute violations and appropriate punishments. But critics say that enforcement will continue to be a problem.

The Trump administration this week blocked the Food and Drug Administration from regulating a broad swath of laboratory tests, including for the coronavirus, in a move strongly opposed by the agency. The new policy stunned many health experts and laboratories because of its timing, several months into a pandemic.Some public health experts worry defective tests could end up on the market, but others cheer the change, saying it is long overdue.

In an open letter to the European Commission and the European Research Council, the President of CESAER emphasises the full support for open access to scientific publications and the implementation of Plan S in Horizon Europe

Arseniy Neskhodimov named overall winner of photography prize for his series Prozac.

We want to hear how researchers and students are managing the start of term.

Government health leaders including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci urged caution last week, citing weak data from the country's largest plasma study.

Slack groups and social media are connecting people who've never fully recovered from coronavirus to collect data on their condition.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill abruptly decided it will no longer hold in-person classes on campus after about 130 students tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week since classes began.

The FDA granted emergency use authorization for a saliva test for the virus that causes Covid-19, which could improve testing capability in the U.S.

It's been described as the 'tip of the iceberg' when it comes to unethical practices in Russian academia.

An algorithm developed to spot abnormal patterns of citations aims to find scientists who have manipulated reference lists.

Activists praise the actions, but now seek deeper cultural change.

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Scientists warned of a coming pandemic for decades. Yet when Covid-19 arrived, the world had few resources and little understanding-despite years of work that outlined almost exactly what the virus would look like and how to mitigate its impact.

A price freeze on journal subscriptions will not be enough to avoid UK researchers losing access to key academic content, warn three major sector bodies representing academic library directors and higher education managers. 

Research indicates that the effects of the pandemic are hitting female scientists especially hard.