University of Leicester professor Turi King explains why her BBC show is right to show the messy reality of DNA investigations and tracing lost parents
Scientists¡¯ ability to understand changing climate is being undermined by lack of coordination and funding, House of Commons select committee report finds
Years of declining funding have pushed university physicians to do more clinical work, with half of professors spending less than five hours a week in the lab
We¡¯re gathering data on interdisciplinary science and online learning, and making improvements to some of our existing rankings, to capture insights on more of the work that universities do, says °Õ±á·¡¡¯s chief data officer
The authoritarian country has rich datasets for research collaboration, but while some new regulations may feel familiar to European eyes, any comfort must come with big ethical caveats, an expert says
The only way to get a permanent contract seems to be to take a teaching position. But that isn¡¯t where my skills or interests lie, says Vanessa Baxter
Barack Obama¡¯s favourite political thinker Yascha Mounk has made his career attacking right-wing populism. His latest target ¨C identity politics fostered on US campuses ¨C will surprise many of his acolytes, he tells Matthew Reisz
Affordable AI-powered writing software offers some hope to scholars unfairly criticised for their imperfect English, but more radical change is required, says Natalia Kucirkova
Departmental hierarchies, job precarity and institutions¡¯ need to protect their star professors enables bullies to thrive in Britain¡¯s top universities, says Wyn Evans
If Stanford¡¯s now-departed president had fully faced up to dubious practices in his lab and insisted on corrections, his infractions of research integrity could have been forgiven, says David Sanders
At the heart of the debate about the global competitiveness of EU-funded research is the question of whether science should be a tool for industrial policy or a global power for good, says Jan Palmowski
