This article discusses why scientific advice must be separate from government decisions and evaluate the autonomy and transparency of the UK's system.

About 20% of data centers in the United States already rely on watersheds that are under moderate to high stress from drought and other factors. However, few companies are talking about the issue.

Nearly 62% of Chileans voted against the proposed charter, which would have boosted science.

The Körber European Science Prize has been awarded to cell biologist Anthony Hyman. Hyman discovered a new state of biological matter that may hold the keys to some of the biggest questions in biology.

Users no more likely to lack motivation than non-users - but motivation may wane while under the influence

The moon contains a lot of mineral wealth-but how practical is mining it?

Researchers say their prototype produces hydrogen with greater than 99% purity and works in air as dry as 4% relative humidity

Opening up about my feelings during my PhD was powerful and cathartic.

An Electronic Frontier Foundation investigation of public records acquired from dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies has uncovered a widely-used mass surveillance technology. 

ETH Zurich is opening a new research and teaching centre with a focus on exploring the origin and prevalence of life on Earth and beyond. Under the leadership of Noble Laureate, Didier Queloz, more than 40 research groups from five departments will address the big questions posed by humankind.

Researchers in the country have often shown creativity and resilience under threat. These strengths will be key to the future of science in Ukraine following Russia's invasion.

A new study provide scientific evidence assessing how effective governments will be at implementing their commitments to the agreement that will reduce CO2 emissions causing climate change.

Fed up with what they saw as inaction by policymakers, three climate change scientists called on their colleagues to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting process. 

Anna Severin explains how her team used machine learning to try to assess the quality of thousands of reviewers' reports.

With countries around the world increasingly focusing on problems at home, the urgent need to reconstruct Ukraine's research and educational infrastructure must not be forgotten.

The European Universities initiative was conceived to develop higher education across the EU, with a tight focus on students and teaching. Higher education institutions from different countries were invited to form alliances and bid for Erasmus + funds to develop joint curricula and boost mobility. But innovation and entrepreneurship increasingly appear in the alliance playbook, particularly when the partners are close to the market.

The research funder's admission has been largely welcomed, but experts say many institutions need to do much more to implement anti-racism pledges.

Postmodern ideas have gained the status of absolute truths. Relativism, selectively appropriated into the language of both left and right politics, has metamorphosed into dogma. As oversimplification distorts communication, public trust in scientific fact has eroded. Could renewed ideas of objectivity be a way out?

Older adults, immunocompromised and the very young are paying the price for the mask-less freedom of many

Being open about being gay allows me to reach my full intellectual potential.

Spain is about to overhaul its research career structures, after the Congress of Deputies approved the final version of a reform to the country's 2011 science, technology and innovation law last week.