The program, known as ARIA, will be independent and scientist-led.

Meet some of the people featured in the February 2021 issue of The Scientist.

Academic mentors are not necessarily natural managers. Their graduate students often bear the brunt of this shortcoming.

A response to Ada Hagan’s opinion piece suggesting that our study “compromises response to gender bias.”

A recent analysis that claimed no evidence of gender-based peer review outcomes fails to account for several factors.

Scientists from countries with fewer resources are pushing collaborators from higher-income countries to shed biases and behaviors that perpetuate social stratification in the research community.

Neanderthal DNA surprises in modern humans, the first blood test for Alzheimer’s, a discovery of new human salivary glands, and, oh yeah, a pandemic

Effectively relating science to the public is a science in itself, and expertise on a topic doesn’t guarantee expertise in explaining it.

Around 100 people were infected at a scientific meeting hosted by Biogen in Boston in February. Then they went back home, taking the virus with them.