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According to the review, some 10% of France's public research funds are awarded to specific projects on a competitive basis—the lowest figure among OECD's 34 member countries—compared with about 22% in Switzerland, about 38% in Germany, and 70% in South Korea.
The people have spoken. Antibiotic resistance has been voted by the British public as the subject of the UK government's £10 million ($17 million) Longitude Prize - an initiative aimed at tackling society's greatest issues.
Research-agency staff protest over slashed spending and concerns about country’s future research capability
In an era of large collaborations, multi-authored papers, and enormous datasets, is there still room for the single creative idea that proves to be a gamechanger?
If everyone likes your research, you can be certain that you have not done anything important. That is the first thing to grasp. Conflict goes with the territory. Innovation comes when universities encourage risk-taking, says Andrew Oswald.
Measures of research impact are improving, but universities should be wary of their limits.
Nachwuchsforscher stehen unter hohem Druck: Gefragt sind Publikationen und Mobilität, Freiräume dagegen sind rar. Die Akademien der Wissenschaften der Schweiz machen die schwierige Situation zum Thema einer Tagung an der Universität Zürich.
Immer wieder geht das Schlagwort vom künstlichen Organismus um, wenn von der synthetischen Biologie die Rede ist. Doch wie künstlich ist das Leben, das diese Ingenieurs- disziplin der Biologie «schafft»?
Weakened by the economic crisis, European science faces increased competition from emerging countries. Helga Nowotny shares her vision for the future of European research.
Bernard Guetta is known as France's most respected geopolitical analyst. On his show on the public radio station France Inter, with its audience of 1.8 million, he deftly discusses the challenges Europe faces in the era of globalization.
Highly fragmented and competitive system can undermine efforts to foster groundbreaking research.
Romance often sparks between colleagues, and scientists are no different. Nature profiles four super-couples who have combined love and the lab.
Millions of patient records were sold to insurance firms who used it to set their critical illness premiums in a series of 'unacceptable lapses', an independent review finds.
The Research Council of Norway is introducing a new, five-year funding scheme that will cover a significant share of the costs incurred by research institutions for publication in open access journals.
The UK and other European countries are underinvesting in research and development, according to a report from the European Commission.
ERC has announced a decrease in proposals submitted to the 2014.
New citation analyses reveal a who’s who of the most impactful scientific researchers.
Five mathematicians, working in a field spurned by Stockholm and Oslo as a matter of course, will now receive $3 million awards of their own It started with a simple message from Internet billionaire Yuri Milner: let's meet up.
The biggest thing holding invention back is our impatience. With enough time and support, young engineers will develop the technology we need.
Anne Glover says that better access to evidence helps policy-makers to make informed choices.
The Research Council of Norway has launched a new databank: an open, interactive tool enabling anyone to instantly customise statistical overviews of Research Council grants dating back to 1997. Soon in English.
Free from bureaucracy, independent science labs offer a flexibility that can't be matched by universities, writes a researcher.
Why has academic knowledge become more expensive for consumers while music has become less expensive, and what can we do about it? Doing nothing to prevent the trading of electronic copies of our academic work could act to circumvent the perils of engagement with the academic publishing industry.
Open access to publications and data in Horizon 2020: Frequently Asked Questions.
There is incredibly intense competition for an academic faculty job even with such a small set of qualified candidates. After 23 years, the U.S. is producing twice as many Master’s degrees per capita than they used to.
Whilst metrics may capture some partial dimensions of research ‘impact’, they cannot be used as any kind of proxy for measuring research ‘quality’.
The Winnower is another open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review, aiming to revolutionize science by breaking down the barriers to scientific communication through cost-effective and transparent publishing for scientists.
A new study shows universities pay more or less for academic journal bundles than would be expected based simply on size or number of Ph.D.s granted.
