Science after the pandemic

A Nature series charts how research will change.

  • Universities will never be the same after the coronavirus crisis
  • Sputnik moment or budget breaker: How will the pandemic alter research funding?
  • How scientific conferences will survive the coronavirus shock
  • Will the pandemic permanently alter scientific publishing?
  • The pandemic is challenging China’s breakneck race to the top of science
  • Scientists’ worlds will shrink in the wake of the pandemic
  • The coronavirus outbreak could make it quicker and easier to trial drugs
  • The pandemic mixed up what scientists study – and some won’t go back