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Thousands of UK doctoral students and early-career researchers shared the repercussions of lockdown on their work and wellbeing.

Struggling to get her research project up and running in a new country, a mother gets inspiration from her young daughter.

Sex-inclusive research practices have increased in many biological disciplines over the past decade, yet critical sex-based analyses and reporting have remained stagnant in most of these disciplines.

20 emerging issues in bioengineering that will have profound impacts on society have been identified.

A survey of scientists working in Germany reveals that most already travel to conferences in a sustainable manner and would be willing to make further changes to protect the environment.

As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.

Researchers should define in advance the criteria for excluding the results of experiments that 'did not work' from articles.

Open data provides an opportunity to perform new analyses on preexisting data, but trade-offs are required to limit an increase in false positives.

Key numbers about the biology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the infection of a single human host by the virus have been compiled from the peer-reviewed literature.

The house sparrow, one of the most ubiquitous birds in the world, is now used extensively in studies across disciplines in the life sciences.