Although the acute phase of the pandemic may be over, experts agree that the virus's effects will remain profound

A new initiative aims to replicate the concept underlying the European Semester with a similar forum for research, development and innovation policies.

Conditions that affect women more than men garner less funding. But boosting investment could reap big rewards. These charts show how.

Impasse after Ukraine invasion threatens long-running data sets in oceanography, ecology, and climate science.

Research management will need to respond to changes in technology, society and policymaking over the coming years.

An international initiative to establish a new body to protect the world's oceans is taking shape. The goal is to build a scientific consensus and shape policies to protect, conserve and restore them.

One of the first scientific findings signed by a woman is now online for the public to see for the first time. Martha Gerrish's descriptions of the stars in 1734 joins discoveries by Isaac Newton, Victorian fossil hunters and pioneer photographers. The documents have been digitised by the Royal Society in London.

Switzerland has so far refused to strengthen scientific cooperation with Taiwan, citing respect for the One China policy and fearing economic repercussions. But this hampers relations with the world’s largest producer of semiconductors.  

Behind a guard shack and warning signs on the sprawling campus of Los Alamos National Laboratory is a forested spot where scientists mimic the first moments of a nuclear detonation. Here, in the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility, they blow up models of the bowling ball–size spheres of plutonium, or “pits,” at the heart of bombs—and take x-ray pictures of the results.

For a lot of fields other than computer science, open science is not a norm.

Large language models seem startlingly intelligent. But what's really happening under the hood?

The Foundation for Polish Science recently extended its For Ukraine programme, launching a third call, open for proposals until 4 April from pairs of scientists working in tandem, one from Ukraine who can be living anywhere, and one employed in Poland.

Arati Prabhakar speaks to Nature about innovation, science's role in political decision-making and taking the reins after scandal.

The deployment closely integrates the key issues of basic disciplines including mathematics, physics, chemistry and astronomy.

AI-powered chatbots get science facts basically right, but their reasoning is still shallow.

At the intersection of academia, industry, and the old underground culture of cannabis are people like Samuel Haiden, a botany graduate student at the University of Connecticut who spent 10

More than one year into a devastating war with Russia, Ukraine's scientists both at home or abroad are still struggling to carry on their work.

A new study has found that human health is in grave danger because of plastics across their entire lifecycle.

Thousands of experts from all around the world are involved in the drafting of IPCC reports - and some of them even work at the European Commission.

Latin American scientists and journals are strengthening research, evaluation, publication, and communication systems to help redefine ideas of professional success that have largely been determined by the Global North.

In 2019 the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) set up a new service, the Competence Centre for International Academic Cooperation (KIWi). It's been hugely popular, and the DAAD believes it's time to give it a boost.

Facing tighter restrictions on access to key technologies and an increasingly competitive global scientific landscape, China has launched a major shake-up of its research organizations in pursuit of “self-reliance” in science and technology.

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