Most people won't spread the virus widely. The few who do are probably in the wrong place at the wrong time in their infection, new models suggest.

Successful women in male-dominated contexts don’t always support women in early career stages. An international team of scientists show that this phenomenon is linked to the difficulties they encounter in the workplace.

Today's offices don't encourage us to mingle-but that's what creativity and productivity demand.

Why is it that while the most vital, and most rigorously tested, information is often locked up behind a paywall, yet falsehoods are readily available?

Retraction Watch looks back at some lessons learned.

A virus has brought the world's most powerful country to its knees.

New data quantify lost work hours and productivity, but the way forward remains uncertain.

Every crisis is a strong call to mobilize the entire research community to respond. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Everyone is 'Covidized', and it should worry us.

An underlying assumption of modern political states is that they are rational systems that 'follow the science' to achieve optimal outcomes for their citizens. Whilst COVID-19 continues to foregrou…

Scientists and science publishers are sharing information as fast as they can during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speed and openness bring new challenges, but they are the way forward for research.

Dr. Sapan Desai, who supplied the data for two prominent and later retracted studies, is said to have a history of cutting corners and misrepresenting information in pursuit of his ambitions.

Wuhan bat virologist Shi Zhengli denies responsibility for the pandemic and calls for more international collaboration.

Was there ever a golden age of unsullied science, as a book implies?

Scientists and journalists need to establish a service to review research that's publicized before it is peer reviewed.

Thoughts from an MD on the COVID-19 crisis.

The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten

Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, including making articles Open Access in line with their funders’ requirements. To address this problem, cOAlition S has developed a Rights Retention Strategy, which will empower their funded researchers to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, and provide Open Access in compliance with Plan S.

The coronavirus has obviously brought with it an epidemic of anxiety and depression. Or has it?

His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we're still coming to grips with the

How do libraries decide which titles to keep when they cancel the Big Deal? What do the results look like?

To fight the raging US pandemic, researchers need to better understand its uneven burden.

As conference cancellations cut revenue, some scholarly organizations are fighting to stay afloat.

At least two more journals are fighting decisions by Clarivate — the company behind the Impact Factor — to suppress them from the 2019 list of journals assigned a metric that many rightly or wrongly consider career-making.

The CDC struggles with structural and cultural issues that have left the agency ill-equipped to fend off political attacks or to build up political capital.

The portion of the population that needs to get sick is not fixed. We can change it.

The process of recruiting a new CEO will commence over the next few weeks. An open future has never been more important – will you join us to create it?

The coronavirus pandemic has posed a special challenge for scientists: Figuring out how to make sense of a flood of scientific papers from labs and scientists unfamiliar to them.

This article looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.

As lockdowns ease, Olivier Pourret hopes that academia will take on board lessons about how to redefine career success.

The European Commission released the European Innovation Scoreboard 2020. According to the ranking, Switzerland continues to be the most innovative country of the continent.