There's a lot of talk of scientists divided over Covid-19, but when you look at the evidence any so-called divide starts to evaporate.

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

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.

Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.

With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.

For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.

How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

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

Trump's experience is a world away from the stressful waiting game most patients wade through after a positive test.

As coronavirus wreaks havoc on existing structures, we take a look at some visions for cities of the future - and how they hold up

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

Research unveiled that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.

An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.

Research ministers have agreed to more aggressively police foreign participation in the EU's research programme, adding a new provision to Horizon Europe that is aimed primarily at preventing China and the US from getting access to sensitive European research.

A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up selection of the most effective shots.

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.

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

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global study shows.

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the "infodemic."

It's not R. But unless you’ve been reading scientific journals, you’re less likely to have encountered k, the measure of the dispersion of the virus.

Techniques such as inclusive teaching can inspire “hyperpersistence”. 

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

Two recent research efforts looked into the southern alligator lizard, which has one of nature's more extreme mating strategies.

New antigen tests will help tackle a dangerous inequality, says Charlotte Summers, lecturer in intensive care medicine at the University of Cambridge

Even as faculty members are given more time to meet a deadline for tenure, many say they are getting less work done because of child care needs.

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

A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.

Can biodiversity be preserved if the most important countries in the world causing climate change do not sign the pledge?

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.