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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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