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The Coronavirus pandemic sends students around the world home from university campuses and into online courses.
As the Board of Reviewing Editors reaches 500, we reflect on recent recruitment efforts.
A team member on the huge project has tested positive for the virus, delaying the air mission.
Many of these titles have some editorial oversight - but the quality of reviews is in question.
While the characteristics of scholars who publish in predatory journals are relatively well-understood, nothing is known about the scholars who review for these journals. This article aims to shed light on the reviewers for predatory journals.
Travel bans, office closures, and conference cancellations have publishers and societies thinking about how best to ensure that scholarly content continues to be reviewed and distributed. This post by Angela Cochran looks at some of the impacts and questions whether.
The two tech titans funded an effort to bring metagenomic sequencing and software to poor countries. Now, it's helping trace the spread of the new coronavirus.
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.
A researcher who forecasts epidemic spread argues that proactive closures, though disruptive, could help.
Universities and research organisations have joined forces to develop a new interactive tool that explores how free movement has affected EU economies and societies.
Research charities Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation announced they are joining forces with the credit card company MasterCard in a $125 million push to speed up development of drugs for treating COVID-19 infections, in the latest example of the rush to fund research into the novel coronavirus.
Research and reading helped Shipra Jain to gain confidence in her abilities.
This is how we all help slow the spread of coronavirus.
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a new global problem. This is our overview of the early research and data on the outbreak. We will extend this page in the days ahead.
Experts say by taking aggresive measures, governments have a shot at stamping out new chains of transmission of the coronavirus.
Göttingen infection researchers identify a potential drug.
A two-part thread about soap, viruses and supramolecular chemistry.
Ils signent pétitions et tribunes pour alerter sur le réchauffement climatique et la dégradation de la biodiversité, pourtant, leur incursion dans le débat public n'a rien d'évident. A l'heure des " fake news ", la communauté scientifique questionne le bien-fondé de son engagement.
When science is viewed in isolation from the past and politics, it's easier for those with bad intentions to revive dangerous and discredited ideas.
But can they overcome free riders and concerns about higher prices?
Paying conference expenses up front from personal accounts is a significant burden, this grad student writes
Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots.
Jonathan Tennant's latest book, The [R]evolution of Open Science, is now available online for free.
News organizations should take political reporters – and perhaps even more importantly, political editors – entirely out of the loop on this story. It’s too important to be covered as a two-sided battle over who’s winning the narrative.
