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Being a busy researcher, if you’ve missed important updates from the academic publishing industry, we’ve got you covered! Here are the top 5 industry updates for this week.

In 2018, the last male northern white rhino, Sudan, bid adieu to the world leaving behind just two females too old to take forward the species.  The scientists at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are…

By the end of the six Apollo missions that took place from 1969-72, astronauts brought back a total of 842 pounds of rocks and dust from the moon. Of the 2,200 samples, NASA scientists started…

A group of scientists investigated how ants can locate their anthills after travelling long distances in search of food. Using path integration, ants can locate a point just by knowing the…

A team of researchers recently published a study1 that classifies 7,414 vocal expressions from 400 pigs, using AI, into positive and negative…

The US State Department announced its withdrawal of the Fulbright Scholarship program from Afghanistan last month for the academic year 2022-23. It…

Now a group of members from eLife, Wiley, PLOS, the Center for Open Science, the University of Edinburgh, Nature Portfolio, Cell Press, and Science have come together to put forth the MDAR…

In a decisive move, the Biden-led administration recently announced a reversal of restrictions implemented by the Trump administration in June 2019 on government-funded research using fetal tissue…

Recently, Clarivate released a report about the seismic shift in the research landscape across the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey (MENAT) region. In the past decades, the region’s volume of…

Spending on R&D is to increase, as per China's recently announced 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025)