Experts identify childcare, which tends to fall to women, as one likely cause for the relative decrease in women’s scientific productivity compared with men’s.

Fast science—with all its warts—is making unprecedented progress in the fight against COVID-19.

Despite high-profile political tensions between the two countries, researchers in the US and China are working together now more than ever, according to our bibliometric study.

The agreement will include approximately 2,700 journals as well as plans to transition Nature journals to open access for the University of California system.

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

All authors other than company founder and CEO Sapan Desai were “unable to complete an independent audit of the data,” The Lancet states.

Scientists have raised questions about the dataset published in The Lancet last week that triggered the suspension of clinical trials around the world—and about Surgisphere Corporation, the company behind the study.

Coronavirus experts are swamped with reading submissions, which they’re working through as quickly as possible.

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