Several cases of renowned scientists being offered large sums of money by institutions in authoritarian countries - such as Saudi Arabia - have been exposed by EL PAIS.

Mathematician and educator Freeman A. Hrabowski III talks about the importance of the humanities, culture change in academia, and much more. He has led groundbreaking efforts to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields throughout his career. As president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for three decades, Hrabowski transformed a regional commuter school into a top-tier research university.

The incredible success of Large Language Models like ChatGPT is both a scientific breakthrough and a boon for future scientific discovery. What is Open AI's role in this?

Applying the latest scientific insight and evidence is the starting point for science diplomacy. Three experts shine a light on the missing links between the two.

Elite universities and the lives of working class academics.

The One Environment-One Health framework proposes new research and policy solutions that better informs the complex interactions among environmental, social and economic systems.

Does research based on a well-defined technological outcome hamper our ability to be creative? And does it limit opportunities to explore and develop fundamental areas of science that may ultimately lead to applications we hadn't even thought of yet?

The first meeting of the G20 Chief Science Advisers Roundtable (G20-CSAR) in Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, Wednesday, witnessed intense discussion on transboundary science and technology issues of mutual interest. This was the first time that chief science advisers of different countries gathered for a roundtable conference at the G20 platform. 

Collectively solving problems shared by many nations requires a new global science and technology commons.

The simple messaging favoured by media advisers doesn't chime with a discipline that is messy and incomplete.

Sexual harassment in STEM isolates survivors. Collective bargaining could engage the whole academic community in ending sexual harassment.

As citizens, we must educate and inspire our peers to act on climate change through positive and empowering campaigns 

The country’s reputation is inflated by historic successes and relies on successful outliers.

Nature asked six women researchers how they celebrate International Women’s Day.

Collectively solving problems shared by many nations requires a new global science and technology commons.

EU funding for research and innovation should have a geographical dimension to help bridge innovation divides in the EU, Lina Gálvez Muñoz MEP tells Science|Business.

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.