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The vice-president Deborah Aaronson tells us how the company got some help from Albert Einstein and why eBooks are not necessarily the future of art publishing

In response to a high infection rate in a critical care unit, a project improved infection-control practices.

Read this article to find out how a project improved infection-control practices in response to a high infection rate in a critical care unit.

When it comes to climate science and other research, abuse of peer review and self-censorship abound.

THE World University Rankings: It is encouraging to see that Bangladeshi universities are making efforts to take part in the ranking race and be on global university rankings.

The structural design of glass curtain walls and facades is a challenging issue, considering that building envelopes can be subjected extreme design loads.

There are no easy answers or quick wins for healthcare systems that are caught in the classic “Innovator’s Dilemma.”

Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?

26 (Xinhua) -- There has been a growing preference among Chinas vehicle buyers for new energy vehicles (NEVs) in recent years, as indicated by the latest data.According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the production and sales of NEVs in August reached 843,000 and 846,000, respectively, an increase of 22 percent and 27 percent year on year.

Insects have a pivotal role in ecosystem function, thus the decline of more than 75% in insect biomass in protected areas over recent decades in Central Europe1 and elsewhere2,3 has alarmed the public, pushed decision-makers4 and stimulated research on insect population trends. However, the drivers of this decline are still not well understood. Here, we reanalysed 27 years of insect biomass data from Hallmann et al.1, using sample-specific information on weather conditions during ...