Bombing of Iran's civilian infrastructure has damaged universities, destroyed thousands of books and manuscripts, amid a government-imposed Internet blackout, some of the country's researchers have to...

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

Papers no longer match the way science actually unfolds. We publish more than anyone can read.

BeSAFE: Behavioral and Social Aspects in Fighting Epidemics

Most vaccines require multiple doses, the first to induce recognition and antibody production and subsequent doses to boost the primary response and achieve optimal protection. We show that properly p...

A discuterne sono alcuni ricercatori del Cnr, in uno studio pubblicato su Physical Review Research

Uno studio del Cnr dimostra come la gestione dell'intervallo tra la prima dose di vaccino (primer) e quella di richiamo (booster) sia un fattore determinante per l'esito della diffusione epidemica. La...

Most vaccines require multiple doses, the first to induce recognition and antibody production and subsequent doses to boost the primary response and achieve optimal protection. We show that properly p...

(Editoriale) C’è la Scienza. E poi c’è la scienza, con la minuscola. La prima ci affascina perché rappresenta il limite ultimo della nostra conoscenza e, a volte, come ogni frontiera, mette paura. La ...

BeSAFE: Behavioral and Social Aspects in Fighting Epidemics

Il 14 e il 15 giugno 2025 la quarta edizione di Scienza Pop esplora Il rapporto tra scienza e società, con i suoi paradossi e le sue contraddizioni.

This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could ‘cause or are likely to cause overall harm’

Imagine being able to unravel the secrets of life as quickly as running a computer program. Researchers at the Arc Institute and Stanford University, both in Palo Alto, California, and NVIDIA just rel...

People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change, deletes datasets that do not fit with its ideology, refuses to pay adequate overhead to universities—so halting research and bankrupting many, and insists that certain words are not used in federal documents, including federally funded research. The words that must not be used include bias, biased, women or female, and it’s impossible to see how scientifically valid research can be conducted without these words: we won’t, for example, be able to write about risk of bias in a sample of women, who make up half the population. The speed with which this has been done has created the intended shock and awe among the opposition, which has been slow to respond. What is happening upends everything we have been taught about the checks and balances of our nation. We begin now to see opposition, not least from journals and lobbying groups. But one group you may not hear from are those inside the federal system. You have not heard from us because we are terrified of the response—not just having our research cancelled and being summarily dismissed, but also set upon …

Announcing The Stargate Project

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as

Just over 5 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) became aware of the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China. A massive global infectious disease...