The process of setting up a funding agency for high-risk research in the United Kingdom is under way. But questions remain about how it will benefit science.

We can learn from our failures.

An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don't quite know what to make of it.

The OA Switchboard has started to develop from an initial seed of an idea into an active community initiative with a broad spectrum of stakeholders committed to making it a success.

In the past few months, we've seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that sharing author manuscripts in open repositories threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine the "version of record". However, establishing and maintaining relationships to other versions of articles or research assets has already been shown to be successful in disciplinary and scholarly communities.

Unpacking each word -- rights, retention, and strategy -- enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.

Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.

Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.

English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.

Data sharing was a core principle that led to the success of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago. Now scientists are struggling to keep information free.

Misuse of climate models could pose a growing risk to financial markets by giving investors a false sense of certainty over how the physical impacts of climate change will play out.

Nearly a year into the pandemic, Facebook now aims to take down misinformation on vaccines overall - not just COVID-19 vaccines.

Scopus has stopped adding content from most of the flagged titles, but the analysis highlights how poor-quality science is infiltrating literature.

A new report for UN Women shows that women have seen a larger increase in unpaid work than men due to COVID-19.

Models suggest that the race for quick results and the importance of being the first to publish is leading to lower scientific standards.

Access to information, and libraries as institutions that deliver it, are key to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz shares 10 golden rules gleaned from a half century of mentoring hundreds of research trainees.

Thanks to the Brexit deal, it is likely that UK researchers will gain access to the Horizon Europe programme and EU research funding. Will this suffice for UK higher education institutions to return to pre-Brexit participation levels?

From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.

What are the pitfalls of using AI as a citation evaluation tool?

Will history judge? Reflections from historians about the intense relationship of past and present.

Paper Digest is a new research tool that uses artificial intelligence to produce summaries of research papers.

The pandemic now highlights the connection between human health and the mismanagement of nature and wildlife.