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Russia has acknowledged destroying a satellite in a missile test, as the US had reported. But the Kremlin denies creating a risk to others in space - and says the US is being hypocritical on space safety.
Survey of 3,500 supervisors lifts the lid on the demands of overseeing junior researchers - and the impacts of the pandemic.
Surveys show that women, parents of young children and people of colour are most affected by pandemic-related disruptions and need more support.
Transdisciplinary research is increasingly seen as critical for advancing climate change adaptation. Operationalizing transdisciplinary research in the global South, however, confronts ingrained cultural and systemic barriers to participatory research.
Is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy off-message?
Let's not beat around the bush: science policy is political.
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.
A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.
In the first of a new 'talking leadership' interview series, Rosa Ellis meets the Johns Hopkins University president to discuss how he is realigning the institution to educate students about democracy and encourage them to contest ideas.
University and College Union general secretary says sector leaders who focused on turnout were 'not listening to a consistent message that staff have been delivering to them'.
A new book recasts human social evolution as multiple experiments with freedom and domination that started in the Stone Age.
How to produce a first-class paper that will get published, stand out from the crowd and pull in plenty of readers.
This post is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry.
Scientists who worked on the original UN climate convention doubt that COP26 will deliver for low income countries.
From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.
Puerto Rico has an underfunded health care system, high levels of poverty and its infrastructure remains devastated by a major hurricane that swept through the island in 2017.
Ancient rock forms suggest world's first stable cratons rose above sea level more than 3bn years ago
Agency says funding issues, along with delays tied to Bezos legal challenge, will push back first landing in a half century
The latest bounty of 35 events features oddball black holes and a miniature neutron star.
At first, no one looked twice at the new variant. Detected in South Africa in January 2021, the novel coronavirus lineage, called C.1, appeared similar to other variants.
After years of bickering, Washington and Brussels appear to be patching up a disagreement over American researchers participating in the EU's big R&D programmes.
Hundreds of junk-science papers have been retracted from reputable journals after fraudsters used 'special issues' to manipulate the publication process. And the problem is growing.
