Wide-ranging expertise and direct involvement of those affected will help to make inequality research more meaningful.

A newly published book looks at how the study of genetics has been warped for political ends.

The engineer says the system has the perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to, a human child.

Workplace crèches and nursing rooms feature, alongside calls for more generous parental leave policies to keep women in science.

The word "bioethics" dates only to 1927, and the subject, as an academic discipline, is only about 50 years old, but the ethical questions that accompany scientific discovery are ancient.

Latest effort would spend billions on a few universities, but skeptics give it long odds.

The High Potential Individual visa is intended to attract graduates from around the world to work in the UK, but its criteria excludes anyone who studied at a university in Africa.

The EFDS will provide funds to academic institutions in Europe that are willing and able to host displaced researchers from Ukraine.

Behind the fall of David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.

The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution were the result of breaking the monopoly on research and study previously held by a small handful.

A cafe in Japan helps writers overcome their procrastination.

It's time to decouple maternity from womanhood. Recent advances in fertility science are helping pave the way toward inclusivity.

As New Zealand considers how and whether to incorporate traditional Māori knowledge in the science curriculum, what might we learn from the experiences of Japan?

Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?

Protected areas help waterbirds thrive if they're actively conserved.

Despite its battlefield failures, Russia has dealt a surprising blow to an unexpected party: world food markets. 

Many Western nations are severing scientific links - but it's a different story in China, India and South Africa.

Politicians are novices by design, so tailoring your communications with them gives you the best chance of cutting through.

The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of scientific advice to modern policymaking. But how can the use of expertise in politics be aligned with the needs and values of the public?

Switzerland and the UK play an important role in scientific projects that bring countries together.

The US president wants huge increases for clean energy and public health, but a divided Congress might not go along with the plan.

This paper develops and studies a complex data-driven framework for human resource management enabling (i) academic talent recognition, (ii) researcher performance measurement, and (iii) renewable resource allocation maximizing the total output of a research unit.

An emerging movement aims to push researchers to pay more heed to inequities in scholarly citations.

The Coalition's decision to veto six research grants was the last straw for a sector that has felt it is under attack and saddled with an unfair funding system.

The magpies showed their smarts by helping one another remove tracking harnesses that scientists carefully placed on them.

All epidemics trigger the same cycle of panic and neglect, usually on a timescale of years. However, with the coronavirus pandemic, this cycle has spun surprisingly quickly.

As the war in Ukraine continues, science and academia have been pulled into the conflict - like it or not - in unexpected ways.

The liberal Gabriel Boric campaigned on a promise to invest in research and fight climate change, and has given scientists prominent positions in his administration.

The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?

Report on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.