The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors today announced the winners of the 10th annual Breakthrough Prizes, awarding a total of $15.75 million to an esteemed group of laureates and early-career scientists.

Disadvantaged students struggle as private institutions offer discounts and community colleges hope for rebound.

Hayder Aljayyash was sentenced to 20 months after breaking into University of South Wales' systems.

Will the plethora review options for preprints usher in a new age of duplicate peer review?

A rigorous study finds that surgical masks are highly protective, but cloth masks fall short.

Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

A sudden rule change by the Australian Research Council-to ban grant applications that cite preprint material-has deemed 32 early and mid-career researchers ineligible to receive critical funding.

Critics of scientific publishing had hoped for a bigger shake-up from the global crisis.

To deliver the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, researchers must rethink funding, global cooperation and how they communicate with policymakers. 

More than 80% of scientific papers stemming from Horizon 2020 funded projects were published in open access journals, according to the European Commission in a new report.

The drastic shake-up of the country's science system is intended to boost innovation, but there are concerns about political interference in the new centralized agency.

Grass-roots action against bad behaviour has spurred reform - and should keep going.

The European People's Party (EPP) is calling on the Commission and member states to fund emergency placements for Afghan researchers and academics at European higher education and research institutions. One of the EPP's lead MEPs, Christian Ehler, said scientists in Afghanistan risk being persecuted by the Taliban, after the islamist group took over the country when the US military and its allies pulled out.

The space race is heating up, but many legal issues are still open to debate.

Space tourism began in 2001 with Italian-American millionaire Dennis Tito. Decades later, it's still a preserve of the rich and essentially white.

Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.

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.