After four years of funding cuts and the erosion of academic freedom in Mexico, one scientist shares his community's concerns about a new law that would give the central government more control over scientific research.

Lands inhabited by Indigenous Peoples contain 80% of the world's biodiversity, and their traditional knowledge can help save the environment

Have you heard people talking about how amazing these new AI chat bots are? About how much immaculate text they can generate in a split second? It's time to talk about what they can't do.

Now and throughout 2023, the European Commission is making its big, periodic push to revise its long-term research and innovation agenda, as implemented in the €95.5 billion Horizon Europe programme.

A year has passed since Russia started to wage a gruesome war against Ukraine. Aside from causing thousands of deaths, displacing millions and causing a pan-European economic crisis, the invasion triggered a fundamental rethinking of German policy.

ChatGPT might not yet give us sparkling prose. But it can free scientists up to focus on more-stimulating writing tasks.

International support has rightly focused on researchers who have been forced to flee. Ukraine's devastated research infrastructure needs assistance, too.

Film-makers should retire the cliche of the lone male scientific genius.

You can only do transformative work at scale if human relationships are at the heart. Transformative relationships are critical to success. 

This article is part of a series of opinions Science|Business is publishing on the EU's strategic autonomy agenda, and its impact on global R&D. A complete report will be published and discussed at the annual Science|Business Network conference 7 February.  

He Jiankui refused to answer researchers' questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event.

Faced with a deluge of papers, journal editors are struggling to find willing peer reviewers.

Democratic countries are bound by economic reality to work together rather than put up barriers to cross-border collaboration. Companies must spearhead the R&D cooperation, argues the lead for a new Fraunhofer USA initiative. 

There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. The authors of this article suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.

Fair access to vaccines and other treatments remains a universal right that both governments and manufacturers must respect.

Conversational AI is a game-changer for science. Here's how to respond.

This article is part of a series of opinions Science|Business is publishing on the EU's strategic autonomy agenda, and its impact on global R&D. A complete report will be published and discussed at the annual Science|Business Network conference 7 February.  

Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.

For young immigrant women like me, the pressures of early career research are even greater than for most. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Readers discuss experimentation on lab animals.

Surpassing 1.5 degrees of warming was never going to be the end of the world.

Expert panel recommends stricter reviews of research involving pathogens or toxins that could have “dual use”

Why are national PID (persistent identifiers) strategies having a moment, and why should researchers care? 

A study suggesting papers and patents that change the course of science are becoming less dominant is prompting soul-searching - and lively debate about why, and what to do about it.

As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.

Ideally, policy makers are relying on the best available science to inform their decisions. Unfortunately, that is not always the case, because often “politics” gets in the way. And that is why it is crucial that scientists recognize their power.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the clock has been since it was established in 1947 to illustrate global existential threats at the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.

Learning how to deliver a polite refusal, alongside management training, will help young scholars with leadership ambitions.

Institutions owe it to young researchers to prepare them for careers outside academia. Preprint review is a perfect opportunity.

This post highlights four different approaches to evidence in policymaking and suggest how researchers and policy organisations might use these findings to engage differently with policy