The world's premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy - until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.

Code for Science & Society aim to improve access to open data science practices and tools and support communities in open data science to grow sustainably and inclusively.

The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.

Political parties demand Sweden's strategy be reviewed before next election in 2022.

The research was the target of a conspiracy theory about the origin of the new coronavirus.

Following an intense period of consultation and co-design, we are excited to unveil our first wave of projects, which will run for the remainder of RoRI's pilot phase (until autumn 2021). We are also delighted to announce our partners, who will be collaborating in the design and delivery of these projects. 

Unequal childcare burden blamed for fall in share of published research by women since schools shut, but funding bodies look to alleviate career impact.

But auditing such efforts will be difficult, while unintended consequences are always a risk, warns Athene Donald.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

ALLEA has launched a task force dedicated to open science and chaired by Luke Drury (Royal Irish Academy).

Covid-19 has slashed donations to medical research funding, charities warn Boris Johnson

European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.

Latest action sows anxiety and confusion across the US scientific workforce.

More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.

The president of Switzerland's top-ranked university says his institution is tentatively getting back to speed after the coronavirus lockdown - but that this is harder than anticipated.

As budgets tighten and the need for open resources swells, efforts to fund essential Open Science services remains critical, as claims the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS).

A report on masks relied on unfounded assumptions, researchers charged, and the authors were permitted to choose their own reviewers.

Information for Wellcome-funded organisations on how to implement responsible and fair approaches for research assessment that meet the expectations set out in Wellcome's open access policy 2021.

We hoped that Covid-19 would be a seasonal infection. We hoped wrong.

Key decisions on the revised submission deadline and impact assessment period have been confirmed, following a recent survey gathering views from the higher education sector.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) partners with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and BMJ to help scientists share health and clinical research faster.

Over the last few months we've been in conversation with colleagues in higher education about what they see as the challenges that lie ahead as they weigh reopening plans and longer term effects of the global pandemic. Starting June 29th, we will be launching our first research effort to support institutional decision-making in research and scholarship.

Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data. One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics.

Nature asked authors and editors for advice on how to improve peer-review communication.

Experts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery.

Early-career researchers feel discouraged from exposing vulnerability even during a global crisis.

New calculations come up with estimate for worlds capable of communicating with others.

"Deeply entrenched systemic racism exists in every sector of our society, including at Yale and in this department," a group of undergraduates wrote in response.

Today's deal between the University of California and publisher Springer Nature is a big milestone on the path to dismantling paywalls around academic journals.