A report endorsed by 16 organizations, including Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, Government Accountability Project, and the Union of Concerned…
A draft Brexit deal detailing the terms of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union has been agreed upon by Prime Minister Theresa May’s Cabinet…
The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) have sent a…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it will allow unrestricted access to genomic summary results from most NIH-funded studies…
With the 14th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity set to consider whether digital sequence information…
Leading scientists and mathematicians urge UK and European Union leaders to strike a deal on research amid stalling negotiations.
A massive fire at Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro has resulted in the loss of about 20 million artefacts, including science and natural…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent a letter to more than 10,000 research institutions on August 20, 2018 expressing concern about “threats…
A recently published Viewpoint article co-authored by eighteen scientists warns about harmful impacts of constructing a border wall between the United…
The European Court of Justice has announced that organisms produced by directed mutagenesis techniques are considered genetically modified…
The German Life Sciences Association (VBIO e. V.) has joined with more than 50 other scientific organizations from around the world to endorse a…
On 1 June 2018, the European Commission adopted a Communication on the first-ever EU initiative on pollinators. The Initiative which sets strategic…
Synthetic biology expands the possibilities for creating new weapons — including making existing bacteria and viruses more harmful — while decreasing…
The United Kingdom (UK) has published a new “Framework for the EU-UK Partnership on science, research, and innovation,” a document that is intended to…
A global team of scientists plans to scour the icy depths of Loch Ness next month using environmental DNA (eDNA) in an experiment that may discover…
EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press today announce the launch of Life Science Alliance, a new global,…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to launch plans to restrict the use of science in rulemakings at the agency, according to recent…
The Royal Society of Biology is supporting calls for a revision of visa rules to allow more researchers to enter the UK, outlined in a letter sent to…
Mark Downs, chief executive of the Roya Society of Biology (RSB) - a partner of German Life Science Association VBIO - called for a life sciences…
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund have announced a new joint initiative: Silencing Science Tracker…
