Riko Muranaka awarded prize for efforts to explain jabs’s safety amid scare campaigns which have seen Japanese vaccination rate fall from over 70% to 1%.

Experiences of black female academics. A new book explores ther career trajectories.

Some of the 1,250 people working at the year-old laboratory say its open plan layout, designed to produce collaboration, makes it hard to focus on work

Paris takes European Banking Authority and European Medicines Agency goes to Amsterdam as EU’s chief negotiator mocks Theresa May’s ‘Brexit means Brexit’ stance.

Leadership is ‘sorely lacking’ in key areas such as robotics and climate change, parliament’s spending monitor warns.

Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe.

In order to tempt nuclear scientists from countries such as Iran or North Korea to defect, US spy agencies routinely send agents to academic conferences – or even host their own fake ones.

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures.

Combining expertise from 21 labs in Europe and the US, the International Brain Laboratory will attempt to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Nowhere near enough new drugs are currently in development says a WHO report, which calls for urgent investment and responsible use of existing antibiotics.

Scientists from around the globe gathered for annual ceremony celebrating research that ‘first makes you laugh, then makes you think’.

Bo Rothstein quits Blavatnik School of Government post after learning that patron is a major financial backer of US president.

If we can get our minds around Premier League statistics, we can handle experimental science, writes physics professor Tom McLeish

Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’

Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.

A paper on conformal algebra has recently caused a stir on social media. Not because of the science, but rather the heartfelt plea in the acknowledgements.

Support for the Google ‘manifesto’ on gender difference recalls the rationale of eugenics.

Crispr inventor Jennifer Doudna talks about discovering the gene-editing tool, the split with her collaborator and the complex ethics of genetic manipulation.