Europe and US-based Chinese researchers have been flooding back to China in recent years — and having a significant impact in the literature after returning ...

Globally, more than two-thirds of researchers find it difficult to prepare manuscripts and to respond to peer-review comments, finds a survey of nearly 7,000...

Women are inadequately represented as peer reviewers, journal editors and last authors of studies, according to an analysis of manuscript submissions to an i...

Combined, scientists spend nearly 70 million hours peer reviewing manuscripts for scholarly journals every year, a new report says. But too much of the onus ...

Academics in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia publish a higher share of their research under an open access licence than scholars in many richer nations, a repor...

From dancing pedestrian lights that encourage safer road crossing to painting babies’ faces on shop shutters to discourage robbery, implementing insights fro...

A global forum, the International Center for Peace and Security, is planned to launch in New York City, United States. The centre aims to enhance collaborati...

Governments should pay more attention to the role that bamboo and rattan can play in building more sustainable and greener economies, a pressure group has to...

A staggering 1.3 billion people worldwide still don’t have access to electricity, and 95 percent of these people are based in either Sub-Saharan Africa or As...

Better monitoring of climate change is needed on mountains, where global warming seems to be happening at a faster rate than other areas, according to recent...

Most developing countries are falling behind with patents and innovation with 91% of patents held by eight rich countries between 2005 and 2010, according to...

According to a new ranking system that was launched in the UK Houses of Parliament on 21st January 2015, only a handful of UK universities are addressing the...

The monsoon season in South East Asian countries affects thousands of village homes that are made from clay or straw every year. But, Lise Fuglsang Vestergaa...

One in six people don't have access to toilets in developing countries. There is a culture of people practicing open defecation in many villages and even som...

Bricks made from soft plastic waste that can each withstand six tonnes of pressure and relentless rain could replace the clay and straw that is currently use...

Scientists have designed an oral tablet-like substance that could be a possible treatment for snakebites in the future. The full news story was published on ...

A free app to help blind people use different functions on smartphoneshas been launched this week, allowing tapping gestures to be translated into text. The w...