Prof Paul Davies suggests viruses may form vital part of ecosystems on other planets

Uncritical and misinformed imitation of physics or biology is a misconception of collaboration.

The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?

These are my remarks from yesterday's UK Student Accommodation Forum on demand for higher education in 2021/22 and on, hosted by Unipol. The event also saw the launch of an excellent new paper on International Students and Factors Affecting Accommodation in the UK. When it comes to demand from home students, the naysayers were wrong in 2020 and […]

Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people's lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.

The Biden administration's first annual list of R&D priorities includes an emphasis on bolstering pandemic preparedness and climate mitigation efforts, strengthening domestic manufacturing, and incorporating equity considerations across federal programs.

UK parliamentary group calls for greater representation of women and minority ethnic groups.

A leading science policy group has launched a science advisory network for French-speaking countries, enabling researchers across the francophone world to share ideas and best practice.

Here's how Afghanistan's scholars can be supported.

For 20 years, science has blossomed in Afghanistan. Now many researchers are fleeing and those who remain face lost funding and the threat of persecution.

Switzerland will be excluded from Horizon Europe for at least two years, fears Yves Flückiger, president of the country's university association, swissuniversities and rector of the University of Geneva.

Hoping to put pandemic-related delays behind it, Brussels is getting back to R&I policy-making.

I pride myself on coming from a place of “yes.” So it was uncharacteristic that, when my department head asked me to share my experiences of homophobia at a recent virtual diversity town hall for faculty, my first reaction was to decline.

With today's existing translation tools to overcome language barriers, global collaboration should not be a major feat for researchers. However, through the COVID-19 pandemic, articles published in Chinese journals focusing on important aspects of the disease were never cited by English journals.

Science is not just something we do at school or professionals undertake in labs. It is at the heart of how everything works.

Models of how the Earth could look in 250m years, with huge land masses and longer days, can help exoplanet hunters

After a fumbling start, the European Union overtook the United States in vaccinations last month.

Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19.

A global early warning center in Berlin will use artificial intelligence to predict the next pandemic. But AI's already helped us fight COVID-19.

Experts say 17,500 tree species are at risk around the world, including magnolias, oaks and maples.

With 70% of the EU population now fully vaccinated, European universities are planning to welcome students back to lecture halls and seminar rooms for the 2021-22 academic year, after long months of disruption and distance learning.

Researchers have grown mini brains with light-sensitive eye structures that could lead to breakthrough treatments for vision disorders.

Food and water were thought to be the main ways humans are exposed to PFAS, but study points to risk of breathing them in.

Osteoarthritis is a crippling, incurable disease. But scientists behind a new large-scale study say their findings could help pave the way to a cure.

The largest-ever independent gathering of interest groups, thought-leaders, science advisors to governments and global institutions, researchers, academics, communicators and diplomats is taking place in Montreal and online.

Several state legislatures have taken steps to restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender adolescents. That goes against medical guidelines.

Some females found to have evolved to have bright plumage, which seems to protect against male aggression, study suggests.

New research points to growing participation of Western Balkans researchers in EU academic exchange programmes, as the EU takes steps to welcome countries in the region as associate members of the Horizon Europe.

EU officials are urging Australia and New Zealand to associate to Horizon Europe, publicly telling them how welcome they would be - but it's not clear if the feeling is mutual.

Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine.