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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Explore the first ever forest soundmap of the world.

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

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

Lecturers say cases may soar as students move in, but ministers insist institutions are prepared.

Author affiliations, and the ability to link them to publications and other scholarly outputs, are vital for numerous stakeholders across the research landscape. With the launch of the Research Organization Registry (ROR) in 2019 (which Crossref has helped to develop), the landscape is changing. ROR IDs are an opportunity to make affiliation details easier for publishers to use and easier for those who rely on this data.

The ETH Board, swissuniversities, the Swiss National Science Foundation, Innosuisse – the Swiss Innovation Agency, and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences reject the Limitation Initiative. They organised a joint press call in order to state their views on the Limitation Initiative and affirm the importance of research cooperation with Europe.

Tear gas from the near-nightly sieges in Portland may be trickling into the Willamette River, officials fear.

A new star has been born on the academic Nordic journal scene: the Journal of Digital Social Research, launched last year. We talked to the editor-in-chief Simon Lindgren from Umeå University.

When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old...

A man in Hong Kong was found to be reinfected with COVID-19, but what that means for vaccines and immunity is unclear

A new study shows the Biogen conference held at Boston's Marriott Long Wharf hotel in February played a far greater role in spreading the coronavirus than previously thought.

"We don't … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we're just scared because we know it could," one student says

The Trump administration this week blocked the Food and Drug Administration from regulating a broad swath of laboratory tests, including for the coronavirus, in a move strongly opposed by the agency. The new policy stunned many health experts and laboratories because of its timing, several months into a pandemic.Some public health experts worry defective tests could end up on the market, but others cheer the change, saying it is long overdue.

In an open letter to the European Commission and the European Research Council, the President of CESAER emphasises the full support for open access to scientific publications and the implementation of Plan S in Horizon Europe