Новости за 18.09.2020

As Peer Review Week 2020 begins, an organiser and contributors to the system share insight on what a healthy scholarly review ecosystem looks like

As winter encroaches (it’s mid-September and we’re in the middle of an Indian Summer here in East Anglia, ahem), the (Red) Knot, Calidris canutus, start to flock on The Wash and their tidal activity can be seen as the waves break repeatedly and these waders take to to the air in their thousands, if not … Continue reading "Knots taking off and knots landing"

Early space travellers were younger men, but the average age has risen since the 1960s. More women are also now going to space, but they only make up 64 of the 566 to have left Earth

30th annual tribute to bizarre experiments goes digital

Read a preview of Launchpad, our free weekly newsletter in which resident space expert Leah Crane fills you in on all the very latest news on our exploration of our solar system – and beyond.

A Nigerian chemist worries as her university and others in the country remain closed due to the pandemic and an academic strike

Academic and science groups concerned by cancellations

The discovery of a possible sign of life on Venus highlights our ignorance of what is going on within its swirling clouds and on its furnace-like surface. It’s time to go there and find some answers, writes Peter Gao

A Nasa scientist’s search for unusual ecosystems – in the depths of our own oceans and much further afield

To inspire students to study chemistry at university, school curricula need to do more to place the subject in context

Novozymes says yes with its launch of probiotics for hard-surface cleaners

‘Soft money' policy led to improper charges, whistleblower alleged

Discovering inhibitors of protein-protein interactions with a screening library

Recommended threshold applies to combined exposure to 4 perfluorinated substances