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NIH Likely to Award Fewer Grants as it Races to Spend 2026 Budget

NIH Likely to Award Fewer Grants as it Races to Spend 2026 Budget

Government shutdown, staff shortages have complicated effort to meet 30 September deadline to spend funds.

UNESCO Launches Open-Source Platform to Advance Global Open Science

UNESCO Launches Open-Source Platform to Advance Global Open Science

UNESCO has officially launched its new Open Science Platform, an open-source resource designed to improve access to UNESCO-supported research and help countries monitor progress towards implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.

Multidisciplinary Teams Seek Ways to Mitigate Existential Threats

Multidisciplinary Teams Seek Ways to Mitigate Existential Threats

Nuclear winter, climate change, bioterrorism, AI. Those and other threats are growing in potential impact. What can we do?

Australian Universities Fast-Tracked Horizon Europe Association in Hope of Shaping FP10

Australian Universities Fast-Tracked Horizon Europe Association in Hope of Shaping FP10

Australia’s top universities are paying €12 million from their own pockets to access the EU research programme

Open Science Retreat Insights: Can Open Science Survive Authoritarianism and Geopolitical Tension?

Open Science Retreat Insights: Can Open Science Survive Authoritarianism and Geopolitical Tension?

Authoritarian tendencies, geopolitical conflicts, and growing concerns about research security are putting Open Science under increasing and unprecedented pressure. At the 10th Open Science Retreat, international experts and practitioners discussed how open research can remain resilient in times of such crises.

Symposium - Revolutions in Science: Discovery, Imagination, and the Future

Symposium - Revolutions in Science: Discovery, Imagination, and the Future

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the National Academy of Sciences will convene scientific leaders, innovators, and emerging researchers to explore a central question: What discoveries will define the next 250 years?

NSF Cuts Hundreds of Science Program Budgets by Up To 30%

NSF Cuts Hundreds of Science Program Budgets by Up To 30%

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has slashed budgets for hundreds of its basic science programs for the remainder of this fiscal year.

Statistics for All: Open-source Pioneers Win Million-dollar Prize

Statistics for All: Open-source Pioneers Win Million-dollar Prize

The free, open-source software R has fundamentally transformed research in statistics and data science. One of the pioneers of its development is Martin Mächler and is among the laureates of the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics.

Gendered AI Design Reflects and Reinforces Society's Biases

Gendered AI Design Reflects and Reinforces Society's Biases

When AI tools are designed with a gender, they don't just encode gendered values they also encourage users to engage with them in biased ways.

Trump Proposes Putting Political Goals Above Objective Criteria in Deciding Who Gets Government Grants

Trump Proposes Putting Political Goals Above Objective Criteria in Deciding Who Gets Government Grants

The White House says the changes it seeks would strengthen transparency, accountability and oversight. Critics say federal grantmaking would become too political.

The Lack of Women at the Top of the Academic Ladder is Driven by Unequal Childcare Responsibilities

The Lack of Women at the Top of the Academic Ladder is Driven by Unequal Childcare Responsibilities

Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. 

Tool Flags Suspicious Journals Before Researchers Submit Papers

Tool Flags Suspicious Journals Before Researchers Submit Papers

The free platform, called Journal Trends, could also allow integrity sleuths to spot low-quality publications.

First and Last Authors More Likely to Be Men in Leading Science Journals

First and Last Authors More Likely to Be Men in Leading Science Journals

Women's participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship - markers of key scientific achievements - have barely shifted over the past decade.

Nature is Expanding Registered Reports to All the Fields in Which We Publish

Nature is Expanding Registered Reports to All the Fields in Which We Publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.