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As innovators, women in science – and particularly those in minority ethnic groups – can face major challenges in getting their ideas...

Thanks to Pimchai Chaiyen, members of the Mahaphot community, in Nan, northern Thailand, now get value from their food scraps. In 2019,...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence suggests a widening of inequalities in academic science, technology, engineering,...

November’s most talked-about natural-sciences papers included three on COVID-19, and one investigating the little-studied effect of a...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ubiquitous in fields such as medicine, education and security, there are significant ethical and...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, exhibits differences in...

Kai Wan, a first-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, UK, studies the impact of extreme temperatures on mortality in Scotland...

An artificial intelligence (AI) network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of biology’s...

The rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has strained healthcare and testing resources, making the identification and...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a mountain to climb, but the work starts now.Credit: Drew Angerer/GettyAfter four years of daily...

Despite substantial progress towards clearing them, Beijing’s notoriously polluted skies remain one of its biggest public policy and...

When Zhu Dongqiang moved from Nanjing to Beijing five years ago, he continued applying for joint grants with his former colleagues,...

Navigating ethical grey areas can be a major challenge for researchers. This is especially true when conducting pandemic-related...

J.B.S. Haldane, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology theory, was reportedly asked what it would take for him to lose faith...

Science is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, long sentences, and impenetrable jargon in academic...

When Richard Primack, a biologist at Boston University in Massachusetts, realized that many of his students would be unable to learn new...