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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.
New federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to contract the virus and die from it.
Are those deciding whether to reopen campuses this fall facing the same risks as everyone else?
The space agency gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the sun, which have now been stitched together to form the video.
You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes.
If your lab is still shuttered and work is a struggle, technology researcher Sun Sun Lim offers advice on how to switch off.
Panellists offer advice on productivity, parenting under lockdown and mental well-being, with more webcasts planned.
It’s not the first time masculine ideology has driven resistance to a public health initiative.
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
CoVis provides a curated knowledge map of seminal works on COVID-19 research. The knowledge map is constantly evolving thanks to the collective editing of subject-matter experts.
In late March of this year, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick suggested in an interview that many people over 70-himself included-would be willing to risk contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) so as not to, in his words, "sacrifice the country." At the time, his comments were widely re
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
With male voices dominating the pandemic narrative, female scientists are lamenting the loss of diverse perspectives.
New research suggests that for a large campus dealing with COVID-19, accurate testing and limits on class size and social contact may be of critical importance.
Frustrated and exhausted by systemic racism in the science community, Black researchers outline steps for action.
Racism is at the heart of the United States' inequality.
The Open Publishing Fest, held over two weeks in May 2020, was a great success with over 150 events from all over the world and a huge variety of topics. The fest really brought people together and injected some charm into the communities life at an otherwise bleak time. With this in mind here ar
From solving attribution issues to understanding terms of service, here are some welcomed tips from Europeana, the Getty Museum, and Newfields.
#BlackintheIvory offers proof that academia needs to do better. Now we just need to do the work.
Efforts to block research on climate change don't just come from the Trump political appointees on top. Lower managers in government are taking their cues, and running with them.
Organs of some who die after over a month in hospital sustain 'complete disruption', peers told.
Wednesday June 10 has been designated a day of action in STEM and in academia in support of Black lives. Non-Black, non-Indigenous people in STEM and academia are invited to dedicate their working hours to formulating a plan of ACTION for how to join the struggle to ensure that Black lives matter.
Experts give their opinion on what risks are worth it in the age of coronavirus.
As marchers in the United States and around the world filled the streets this past week to protest against police brutality and racial injustice, Black scientists grieved openly on social media, calling for action on racism in society and in science.
