Researchers can still operate by the rules and norms of science, but under Horizon 2020 they have - with the exception of the ERC - no autonomy to decide what science they do.

'Big money' grants foster 'bookkeeping' work at the expense of small-scale but potentially groundbreaking efforts, says Gary Thomas

Improving U.S. education in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — has become a popular cause.

"We must put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade." These were the words spoken in 1961 to Congress by the late President John F.Kennedy, who fifty years ago this month was struck down by an assassin's bullet in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

Presidential address on why society is willing to support an endeavor as abstract and altruistic as basic scientific research and an enterprise as large and practical as the R&D enterprise as a whole.

British and Australian scientists compile a list of tips to help policy makers better understand the 'imperfect nature of science'

The push to replicate findings could shelve promising research and unfairly damage the reputations of careful, meticulous scientists, says Mina Bissell.

Rather than simply demanding more open science, we should remember closure is a quite normal part of science, and instead look in detail at what's closing, when, why and to whom?

A post highlighting some policy goals and showing how the incentive system for publishing could easily be made into an important tool for achieving them.

There's a little-known dirty secret in science funding; prior to World War II and the Manhattan Project, the overwhelming majority of basic research was done by corporations. Thus, the tanks, planes, materials advancements and everything else were created by the private sector.

Hours spent writing grant applications could be spent actually doing research with a grant-determining formula.