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The push to remove journal paywalls officially started this year. Here’s how it works, reveals Nature.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the UN’s flagship plan to end poverty and protect the environment. Researchers need to launch a rapid response, says a Nature Editorial.

"It so clearly signals an unwillingness to co-operate with other countries and the chilling effect this has on international agreements about intellectual-property rights,” says science-policy researcher Ohid Yaqub.

In her address at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, she said "I am very happy to be here to gather together. Your school has a large number of talents including academic leaders such as Deng Julong and Liu Sifeng,…

Once beautiful and splendid, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen a record number of fires this season, scorching vast areas of greenery known as the "lungs of the planet."

Libraries and Elsevier cannot agree on an access deal

Scholars fear that affiliation with the high-status Thousand Talents scheme could make them targets of FBI investigations.

Humanity has a limited window in which it can hope to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to climate report, says Jeff Tollefson.

Although abstract, Romer's theory has had an impact on governments around the globe, Reiner says. Romer himself has also played a role in setting economic policy, serving as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank from…

Mark Twain is said to have remarked that a lie can travel around the world and back while the truth is still lacing up its boots. In these modern times, of course, a lie can spread just about as fast as a human finger can click “retweet.”…