We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence

Scientific publishing is undergoing a systemic breakdown. Thousands of journals now collect article processing charges while providing minimal editorial oversight. This erodes standards and threatens....

Welcome to the -viz suite of tools: classic bioinformatics tools, reimagined for the browser. agviz · bamviz · genbankviz · phispyviz Each of our tools is a classic bioinformatics tool, but reimagi…

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

Metawebs, regional networks formed by aggregating interactions between the species pool of a given region, are emerging as a rapidly growing modelling…

Ecological Statistician

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Abstract. Deception Island fumaroles in Antarctica represent rare environments where extreme heat intersects with cryospheric and marine conditions, creati

Germany and Brazil reach agreement over controversial fossil, heralding new collaboration between the two nations

The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.

The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Join us for one of Europe’s leading ecological conferences, where scientists, students, and professionals from across the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland come together to explore t...

Polar Microbial Ecologist

Israeli military says primary target, killed in a missile strike far from the frontlines, was a Hezbollah ‘terrorist’

Job title: Researcher position in marine ecology/seabird ecology  (277350), Employer: The Norwegian Polar Institute, Deadline: Monday, April 7, 2025

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects. UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, is one of the world’s most comprehensive stores of health information and is credited with driving breakthroughs in cancer, dementia and diabetes research. But scientists approved to access Biobank’s sensitive data appear to have sometimes been cavalier about its security. Continue reading...

Abstract. Microorganisms are metabolically versatile and central to marine ecosystems, yet the potential of marine microbial communities to degrade differe