When submitting manuscripts to Western journals, authors face issues that go beyond language barriers.

China and Japan have also closed their schools, prompting universities worldwide to assess the threat this virus poses to their local and international communities.

More cases emerge across the country as the global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 3,000.

Organizers have cancelled conferences, COVID-19 quarantines have prevented some scientists in China from visiting their labs, and travel restrictions have left researchers stranded.

The 1-billion-year-old impressions have features similar to modern algae and indicate that photosynthesizing plants evolved at least that long ago.

The case of a lieutenant in the Chinese army who studied physics at Boston University points to broader vulnerabilities in US academia, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Liu Zhiming is the eighth frontline health-care worker to die from COVID-19, and hundreds more have been infected.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases releases a series of images that offer a close up look at the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

The US Department of Education is looking into allegations that the institutions failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts from other countries.