Facing a potential re-election battle next year, President Joe Biden laid out broad funding priorities for the US government on 9 March. His proposed budget for 2024 would invest new research funds into a range of programmes designed to achieve goals in scientific innovation, domestic manufacturing and clean energy, among others. 

Today the science academies of the G-7 countries issued three joint statements to their respective governments to inform discussions during the G-7 summit to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, in May, as well as ongoing policymaking.

Opinion: European universities still face "far too many" restrictions on their autonomy, hindering them from realising their full potential, according to a recent comparative scorecard on university autonomy.

Nearly 5 years after a Chinese scientist sparked worldwide outrage by announcing he had helped create genetically edited babies, China has unveiled new rules aimed at preventing a repeat of such ethically problematic research on humans.

In the first nationally representative survey of U.S. adults on reasons for trust in federal, state, and local public health agencies' information during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was highly trusted for information by more than one-third of U.S. adults, whereas state and local health departments were highly trusted by about one-quarter.

A year ago, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine redefined geopolitics in a shockwave that is still reverberating through the science world. The EU research community was quick to cut ties with Russia and lend Ukraine a helping hand - but now it is grappling with resulting instability and uncertainty as the war climbs into its second year.

UK scientists had been shut out of the multibillion-euro scheme amid drawn-out Brexit negotiations.

Windsor Framework could end impasse over Horizon Europe funding program, but hurdles remain.

UK researchers received little funding from EU programme because of Brexit trade deal negotiations.

Climate change adaptation is increasingly being addressed by public, private, and hybrid governance institutions across global, regional, national, sub-national, and local scales.

Robert P Crease explains why science can only thrive if we understand what makes humans tick

Funding should incentivize institutions to support healthy careers and to spark collaborations with industry.

Researchers say science is bleeding in Ukraine - but they are determined to sustain their work with help from other nations.

The Treasury has taken back £1.6bn that it had allocated to UK involvement in a EU science research programme.

A JRC report analyses the most spread narratives, their consequences, factors predicting how likely people are to believe or share them, and the most efficient ways to counter them.

Marc Lemaître, the new chief of the EU's research directorate takes office today, he will apply his experience in Cohesion policy to promote greater coordination between research funding and regional development funding, increasing the impact of both.

Two years ago, this journal pledged to report on the diversity of sources in our journalistic content. The first results are now in.

Now is not the time to undermine positive moves over the future of EU-UK science collaboration.

Sweden kicked off a five-month push to deepen EU cooperation on research infrastructures and open data sharing, at an informal meeting of research ministers in Stockholm on Wednesday. The six-month Swedish presidency of the EU isn't introducing new topics to the table but homing in on two that have been discussed for years: research infrastructures and open science publishing.

Group leaders voice their struggles with mental health to remove stigma and bolster institutional support.

As we approach a year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ian Sample talks to physicist Professor John Ellis, and Arctic governance expert Svein Vigeland Rottem, about how the world of science has had to adapt

Former universities minister Michelle Donelan is appointed head of newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in mini-reshuffle.

Data sharing has been a success for large collaborations like CERN and LIGO. But what about small research groups with bespoke experimental setups?

Researchers are excited but apprehensive about the latest advances in artificial intelligence.

Approaches to capturing the benefits of research on society are improving, but huge challenges remain.

Horizon Europe is heading into its third year, and the latest statistics offer a glimpse of how the EU is spending its €95.5 billion research funding pot.

In an effort to get its big-spending programmes working better together, the European Commission named Marc Lemaître, currently head of its regional development funding, to run its big research and innovation programme.

New technologies might provide more potent or broader immunity - but will have to fight for market share.