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NewsFrench mathematician returns as interim European Research Council president
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon takes the reins after previous head’s acrimonious departure
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Explainer: What is quantum tunnelling?
Welcome to a weird world where reactions that ought to be impossible occur regularly
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Horizon Europe budget cut prompts backlash from ERC’s scientific council
Proposed reduction attacked as ‘retrograde step’
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Russian cyber spies are targeting Covid-19 vaccine research
Intelligence officials warn that Russian hackers are trying to steal intellectual property from UK, US and Canadian organisations working on novel coronavirus vaccines
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Hand-powered centrifuge setup can diagnose Covid-19 for just a dollar a test
$5 centrifuge based on children’s toy part of raft of cheap technologies that can detect the virus in saliva in remote locations
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Criminal charges for undeclared Chinese research ties mount in the US
Ohio State University immunologist is latest to be swept up in probe into undisclosed foreign funding
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Chemistry departments across the UK tackle herculean task of reopening
Face masks and hand sanitiser the norm as researchers return to work
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Does pursuing commercial interests hinder an academic career?
Research probes scientists’ motives for pursuing commercial projects
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Does hydroxychloroquine still have a role to play in this pandemic?
Touted as a wonder drug by some its star now appears to be on the wane
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Suit of iron turns sperm cells into spermbots
Researchers have created microrobots that swim under the influence of a magnetic field, by coating sperm cells with iron nanoparticles. The spermbots could one day be used to deliver drugs to hard-to-reach areas in the body. Micro- or nanorobots are systems that can respond to a stimulus with some ...
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US environmental body ditches ban on grantees on advisory panels
After several legal defeats, the EPA has backed down on controversial policy
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Explainer: The science of Covid-19 testing
Rapidly-deployed methods are saving lives and easing minds
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Roadmap plans route out of pandemic purgatory for UK research
Ambition applauded by science community but researchers yet to be sold on its substance
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EU science programme will be hurt by Brexit but will survive
Network analysis suggests excellent science pillar of Horizon framework will be hardest hit
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Fears that US clampdown on student visas will hamstring nation’s research
The country’s universities could suffer if restrictions aren’t eased soon
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Chemistry’s reproducibility crisis that you’ve probably never heard of
Legacy issues are posing important questions for scientific software developers
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CRUK warns of £150m cut to research funding
Charity calls for government support as coronavirus hits fundraising efforts
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Explainer: how is the vaccine pipeline for Covid-19 looking?
The race to develop a vaccine is almost six months old. Who’s in the lead?
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Covid-19 is forcing pharma to rethink clinical trials
Drug trials have become a casualty of Covid-19, but the pandemic is also prompting change
