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Academic dies after displaying symptoms of disease he studied, with thousands of unauthorised samples reportedly unearthed at lab

Michael Eisen removed as editor-in-chief of eLife after sharing article from satirical news website

Effort mirrors similar efforts in Canada and New Zealand, and attracts corresponding doubts about whether the pursuit promises meaningful value to research

After world¡¯s largest funder of medical research spends a year without a permanent head, US Senate gives Harvard oncologist a list of political pleas but no serious opposition

91ÇÑ×Ó analysis finds that high share of global institutions fail to recognise staff for cross-disciplinary working, as experts warn research environment is ¡®still not up to the task¡¯

An early draft of the Knowledge Security Act suggests mass screening non-EU students and academics based on discipline, departing from an on-demand approach that won admiration abroad

Successful efforts to boost China¡¯s citation standing are part of plan to push regulation away from current global norms, says thinktank analyst

Britain should emulate Canada¡¯s investment in digital security and due diligence to ensure research resilience, says elite university group

University of Leicester professor Turi King explains why her BBC show is right to show the messy reality of DNA investigations and tracing lost parents

Researchers will work with faculty co-led by Sir Tony Blair at huge new multidisciplinary institute funded by Oracle software magnate Larry Ellison

Scientists¡¯ ability to understand changing climate is being undermined by lack of coordination and funding, House of Commons select committee report finds

Evacuation of international staff and mass mobilisation of army reservists has left some labs operating on ¡®skeleton crews¡¯

Greater understanding of the risks will help plot a sensible course between academic freedom and government control, says Fiona Quimbre

Increased scale of new German-Dutch imprint will speed transition to open access publishing and allow more investment in infrastructure

Years of declining funding have pushed university physicians to do more clinical work, with half of professors spending less than five hours a week in the lab

Church of Ireland Historical Society removes references to founder following accusations of child sexual abuse

Instead of focusing on the reliability of the data, I know first-hand that defamation suits become personal and career-threatening, says David Sanders

Award forces US university science to face up to treatment of immigrant woman who worked past demotions and threats to help create life-saving vaccine

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin is third woman to win Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences

While universities bankroll more research from their own pockets they exercise less discretion about the things they study

Annual meetings should be reimagined as spaces that enable connections ¨C including with practitioners and the media, says Noam Schimmel

UK science secretary claims she is taking a stand against the ¡®slow creep of wokeism¡¯ in academia

University of Pennsylvania¡¯s ¡®tenacious¡¯ laureates reflect on coping with demotion, dismissal and desk rejection to continue their mRNA research

We need to encourage and support scientists to leap into the unknown to solve our grand challenges faster and more equitably, says Xiangkun Cao

Hideo Ohno urges a level-headed approach as university seeks final green light in high-stakes excellence scheme

Asia saw the largest rise of all continents in research quality, teaching score, and overall performance in the latest World University Rankings

Hong Kong and the Netherlands lead new 91ÇÑ×Ó metrics measuring research strength, excellence and influence 

Southeast Asian country has made big gains on student-staff ratio since 2020, while Hungary has improved on share of postgraduate researchers

North America has also revived while Oceania¡¯s international outlook has dipped. Patrick Jack picks out key rankings trends

European nations have the highest research income levels, but Hong Kong and Australia surpass them in research productivity

UK and US universities struggle to keep pace with top Asian performers as research funding shares decline

We¡¯re gathering data on interdisciplinary science and online learning, and making improvements to some of our existing rankings, to capture insights on more of the work that universities do, says °Õ±á·¡¡¯s chief data officer 

While the process to replace Excellence in Research for Australia is a ¡®black box¡¯ exercise, new evaluation mechanisms hold promise

Research ecosystems need some ¡®apoptosis¡¯ as some cells emerge and others fade away, summit hears

Pairing of ideologically opposed academics should become sector norm when researchers disagree, says Pennsylvania project leader

Think twice before pushing bush campuses into national institution or shotgun marriages with research elite, says Chris Hutchison

¡®The real world doesn¡¯t come neatly compartmentalised,¡¯ summit hears, in exploration of the ¡®unique¡¯ strengths of multidisciplinary research

Incentives needed to build research across disciplines to address global challenges, 91ÇÑ×Ó summit hears

The authoritarian country has rich datasets for research collaboration, but while some new regulations may feel familiar to European eyes, any comfort must come with big ethical caveats, an expert says

Partnership will seek to reward institutions that incentivise cross-disciplinary work aimed at solving the world¡¯s biggest challenges

Nishan Canagarajah says expansion of prestigious UK university grouping to include his institution is long overdue

Leading economist says new innovation agency needs to be surrounded by a stable ecosystem to enjoy success

The only way to get a permanent contract seems to be to take a teaching position. But that isn¡¯t where my skills or interests lie, says Vanessa Baxter

Only one in five researchers in UK universities have been employed in private sector, says new report

As a human activity, research cannot but be cultural as much as it is scientific, say Annamaria Carusi and Shomari Lewis-Wilson

After its celebrated 2020 response to George Floyd killing, university now accused of political performance

Nobel-winning scientists are now using large language models, but experts say their impact on research is only just starting

Barack Obama¡¯s favourite political thinker Yascha Mounk has made his career attacking right-wing populism. His latest target ¨C identity politics fostered on US campuses ¨C will surprise many of his acolytes, he tells Matthew Reisz

Listing all contributors would avoid damaging rows and properly reflect work of scholars, says elite European university group

Non-elite institutions have fuelled recent technological successes ¨C with IIT graduates ¡®few and far between¡¯ at India¡¯s space agency

Researcher disturbed by how easy it was to get sucked into lives of women who serve up beauty advice alongside racial hatred

Science minister says deal addresses ¡®big fear¡¯ UK participation would not recover and allows UK to be net beneficiary

Country¡¯s two years outside of €95 billion research programme comes to an end

Proposed research priorities focus more on broad societal goals than on the mechanisms for achieving them

Cedars poll highlights toxic working environments in British universities that REF¡¯s focus on research culture aims to tackle

Affordable AI-powered writing software offers some hope to scholars unfairly criticised for their imperfect English, but more radical change is required, says Natalia Kucirkova

Scholars lament loss of ¡®critical¡¯ resource in Nordics at a time when knowledge of Asia is ¡®increasingly important¡¯

Departmental hierarchies, job precarity and institutions¡¯ need to protect their star professors enables bullies to thrive in Britain¡¯s top universities, says Wyn Evans

US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents

Remodelling engineering degrees to include rewilding and ecological restoration would benefit students, society and the planet, says Paul Jepson