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All researchers seeking grants through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science will soon be required to submit a diversity, equity and inclusion plan to receive funding, the agency recently announced. Read more

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong. Read more

Trailblazers of a molecule linking technique honoured, including one who becomes a laureate for the second time Read more

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution. Read more

Asian research powerhouses will introduce open-access mandates within the next “two to three” years, experts have predicted, in the wake of last month’s landmark order by the Biden administration. Read more

White House mandates free, immediate public access to government-funded research. Many open-access advocates celebrate the decision, but some scholars wonder who will fund the policy. Read more

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court has reached an agreement with the Law School of Peking University to jointly increase intellectual property-related research and establish a talent education base. Read more

Supermarket shoppers could soon be checking the environmental impact of food before putting it in their trolleys, thanks to new research. Read more

Successful replication efforts heavily tied to whether original research team allowed a role, finds study of contentious psychology field Read more