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The Policy Briefs of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force are now available on its website. They reflect the Task Force thinking on a topic at that time and will be updated in the light of new studies or other data.
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How did matter gain the edge over antimatter in the early universe? Maybe, just maybe, neutrinos.
Science and scientists face crushing opposition. In addition to silent-spreading disease and a burning planet, they must take on the moneyed, the godly, the dictatorial and Mike Pence.
His original submission was rejected as being "too narrow" - but later authors who presented the same idea as a new technology rather than as a scientific finding have been hailed as inventors of optogenetics.
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution observations of the Sun’s surface ever taken. In this movie, taken at a wavelength of 705nm over a period of 10 minutes, we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever.
The new report, Presidential Recommendations for 2020: A Blueprint for Defending Science and Protecting the Public, outlines a suite of recommendations that the next president can take to protect the health and safety of the public through restoring science to government decisionmaking processes. The report focuses on strengthening three major principles underlying science-based decisionmaking: independence, transparency, and free speech.
Even in the best-case scenario, developing, testing, and mass-producing a new vaccine takes many months.
The European Union's new innovation chief, Mariya Gabriel, wants to "revitalise" efforts to create a real single market for research, education and innovation, bridging the performance gap between eastern and western Europe.
A century and a half has seen momentous changes in science. But evidence and transparency are more important than ever before.
Researchers in Sweden have created a molecule that offers a way to trap heat from the sun.
Autoformatting in Microsoft Excel has caused many a headache—but now, a new study shows that one in five genetics papers in top scientific journals contains errors from the program.
Two upcoming reports disagree on the wisdom of setting a 2050 target for ending the disease.
Google announces 2019 science fair winners.
Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people.
Most plant life survived the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl - and they have a lack of legs to thank for it.
The world's largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges.
Sluggish economy and unemployment could explain French pessimism about science's job-boosting power.
Spin in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments affects patients’/caregivers’ interpretation.
scite is a platform that allows anyone to see if a scientific report has been supported or contradicted by subsequent work. Its aim is to make it easier to tell what is fact and what is not.
For years, scientists have declared P values of less than 0.05 to be "statistically significant." Now statisticians are saying the cutoff needs to go.
