Tying federal research funding to scientists’ efforts to inform and engage the public can help fix widespread indifference to science.

A new ruling removes the requirement that grants and proposals using the material receive approval from an ethical review board, reverting to the process in place before 2019.

These new initiatives would tackle problems relating to health and climate.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

Although scientists debate the ethics of deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, plenty of consenting participants have been exposed to all sorts of pathogens in prior trials.

A study finds improvement in the proportion of scientific projects that include both sexes, but analyzing results by sex is not routine.

The abrupt termination comes after the research drew President Trump’s attention for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Constantine Stratakis, who was due to lead an institute at McGill University Health Centre, was the subject of eight equal employment opportunity complaints at his last job at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The sponsors of upwards of 1,000 clinical trials may be forced to publish data that have gone unpublished over a 10-year period.