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Looking at what people search for online reveals what South Africans think about environment issues over the last twenty years.
Academia is dysfunctional, says the White House, and needs radical solutions. But is the research reform agenda being used to defund universities, or moving too fast?
Budget pragmatism prompts shift of bottom-up funding for institutions to programme area devoted to collaborative research.
Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data - but humans still need to decide what makes sense.
Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here's how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.
Analysis of OA policies across 35 countries finds “progress” but also “persistent fragmentation”.
The latest Scholars at Risk Free to Think report shows academic freedom continues to be under increasing attack in many countries. But erosion of academic freedom could be reversed by new governments.
Studies produced by a suspected paper mill are frequently cited in patents, clinical guidelines and policy documents, according to a new analysis.
Research committee MEPs are concerned about potential conflicts of interest in councils intended to set priorities
Offer of associate EU membership opens the door to new trans-Atlantic relationships in Horizon Europe, Erasmus+ and beyond
One-fifth of data sets intended to support replication breached privacy standards, study finds
Following controversy over a mathematics breakthrough claimed by OpenAI, funders grapple with how to make sure proposals stay confidential.
Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.
Background Peer review-based funding evaluation systems are under increasing pressure. To help alleviate this, innovative approaches like Distributed Peer Review (DPR) are being explored.
Commission proposes Innovation Act and Public Procurement Act to harmonise rules and unlock funding for new technologies.
Alarmed by the victory of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in an east German state government election, major higher education organisations have made urgent pleas to uphold academic freedom.
NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.
Violent state repression and government interference in university autonomy lead the global decline in academic freedom, according to Scholars at Risk’s (SAR) Free to Think 2026 report.
Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.
Europe already has much of the data it needs to better predict and fight wildfires. The challenge is making this fragmented data work together.
A new study finally puts a number on the extent to which spats hurt research ties. But the bigger story may be the resilience of global science.
Votes on all EU programmes are postponed until MEPs in the budgets committee agree the Performance Framework Regulation.
