Wellcome's third Global Monitor survey, released October 10, finds trust in science and researchers has fallen since the COVID-19 pandemic, with notable variation by country and region. The survey, which for the first time asked about artificial intelligence, also found links between people's financial security and their trust in science, and between confidence in local health-care access and trust in science overall.
nature.com
· 2026-10-28
Recent polling cited shows that 38 percent of U.S. adults report being estranged from at least one family member, a trend that researchers say has grown more visible since the Covid-19 pandemic. The data suggests this personal rupture is increasingly spilling into workplaces, affecting employees' focus and wellbeing on the job.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-13
Researchers at the University of Oxford launched a project in 2022 to explore how academic teams can produce timely scientific insights in partnership with various stakeholders. Their experiments aim to demonstrate more agile and transparent research practices suited for urgent decision-making contexts. These efforts follow the successful COVID-19 response, which showcased rapid scientific collaboration and innovation.
nature.com
· 2026-10-06
A new analysis argues that how companies decide where employees work matters as much as the final policy itself. It notes that more than six years after COVID-19 began, over one in five U.S. workers able to work remotely still do so full-time or part-time.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-23
A new Nature study by Angrist and colleagues examined how remote phone-based tutoring affected children's learning during periods when schools were shut, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research found strong evidence that this low-tech approach helped students keep learning despite the disruption, offering a rare data-backed solution to an otherwise poorly understood problem.
nature.com
· 2026-09-09
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