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Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

The aim of the study is not to compare and assess the success of countries’ key Covid policy responses, but rather to compare the various ways in which evidence has been marshalled and applied.

Mother in Science is launching the first global survey to measure the impact of having children on career progression, scientific productivity and career choices of women in STEMM, and to identify the specific motherhood-related factors driving gender imbalance in STEMM employment.

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Termini from UCLA presents a list of 100 Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America that all researchers can look to for inspiration.

The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) is pleased to announce the formal launch of our organization.

Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.

The Open Access Days are the central annual conference on Open Access and Open Science in the German-speaking world and will take place from 15 to 17 September 2020 as an online conference.

The proportion of research outputs published in open access journals or made available on other freely-accessible platforms has increased over the past two decades, driven largely by funder mandates, institutional policies, grass-roots advocacy, and changing attitudes in the research community.

This article examines why many studies fail to replicate statistically significant published results.

We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now.

New report published by Springer Nature analyses usage patterns across open access and closed books.The results show higher geographic diversity of usage, higher numbers of downloads and more citations for open access books.

UCLA professor of Law and Communication Mario Biagioli dissects how metric-based evaluations are shaping university agendas.

Coronavirus shows why open publishing is vital, but could make it unaffordable, says Martin Eve.

Invest in Open Infrastructure receives initial funding to launch and hire a Director.

Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.

Universal facial masking might help reduce the severity of SARS-CoV-2 and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.

Large in-person gatherings without social distancing and with individuals who have traveled outside the local area are classified as the “highest risk” for COVID-19 spread by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Between August 7 and August 16, 2020, nearly 500,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, South Dakota for its annual motorcycle rally.

The Manchester Team within the Oslo Institute for Research on the Impact of Science centre has published this a conceptual paper that underpins the empirical work on framework conditions on the user side combining various political science and sociological theories.

Test results in 24 hours, temperature checks at every store, no fights over masks.

This blog post demonstrates how scientometrics can help trace mobility patterns at the institutional level, using the Dimensions database.

EMBL will hold a virtual conference, 'The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women in science: Challenges and solutions' on 9 September.

After COVID-19 researchers on the East Coast received a package containing an "unknown substance," the University of Washington told 500 of its staff to be on alert.

The COVID-19 pandemic is severely pressuring a long-building rise in worldwide innovation, likely hindering some innovative activities while catalyzing ingenuity elsewhere, notably in the health sector, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020.

The academic and broadcaster recounts her experience of harassment by a colleague.

A growing body of research is raising concerns about the cardiac consequences of the coronavirus.

Explore the first ever forest soundmap of the world.

Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it.

Countries seek new coronavirus strategies as COVID-19 surges across the continent again

Technology gave us the dream of a cocooned future. Now we're living it.

Recently the creators of Transpose and the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies convened an online workshop on infrastructures that provide information on scholarly journals. In this blog post they look back at the workshop and discuss next steps.