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The shift to virtual conferences needs to be accompanied by a sensitivity to people in different time zones.

Europe's political shake-up is approaching - for researchers, key factors such as immigration and funding hang in the balance.

During a pandemic, more researchers might require support from colleagues and depend on those partnerships to collect the data they need to keep their labs operational. The article presents guidelines for collaborations.

Unchecked ivermectin use in region is making it difficult to test anti-parasite drug's effectiveness against the coronavirus.

The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly - but critics say it comes with a high price.

Big moves to rebuild the scientific infrastructure are possible, argues Ulrich Dirnagl.

Should academic science reconsider the definition of success?

The idea that competent researchers are apolitical is false, and it costs lives.

Publishers agree to make journal summaries open and searchable in single repository.

Science and politics are inseparable - and Nature will be publishing more politics news, comment and primary research in the coming weeks and months.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.

Public trust in a potential vaccine is under threat. Drug companies and their academic partners must disclose protocols and results data.

The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?

Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.

The US president's actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the second major US funder to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication.

Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation and scientific expertise, say legal scholars.

Five international students and postdocs reflect on a turbulent year triggered by the Trump administration's visa restrictions.

Researchers warn that vaccines could stumble on safety trials, be fast-tracked because of politics or fail to meet the public's expectations.

Immunization has always been a proxy for wider fears about social control, a history reminds us.

Months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, some people are still battling crushing fatigue, lung damage and other symptoms of 'long COVID'.

Open letter flags results that appear to be duplicated and calls for access to the underlying data on the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for widespread use.

Researchers stress need for antenatal care, as emerging data link disrupted pregnancy services to increase in stillbirths.

Europe's flagship science agency will be crucial to a post-coronavirus world. Slashing its budget will be a senseless act.

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of herd immunity has become a topic of much debate. This Comment examines the factors that determine it, discusses how far we have come and considers what it will take to reach herd immunity safely.

An advocacy group calls for funders and institutions to launch flexible grant and fellowship schemes and equity programmes.

The pandemic has worsened the plight of postdoctoral researchers. Funders need to be offering more than moral support.

As COVID-19 reveals the toll of discrimination, racism and inequality, a book skewers genetic reductionism.