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As the first year of Horizon Europe draws to a close, Science|Business gathered feedback from an online survey and meetings with its member organisations resulting in recommendations on how to make the next six years of Horizon Europe even better.
Public money contributes to the publication of around 2.5 million papers in scientific journals each year - yet as taxpayers most of us have access to just a fraction of that output.
Outreach activities helped this postdoc grow and find satisfaction in her work as a scientist
Too many national leaders get good guidance yet make poor decisions.
Science benefits when junior scientists sign up as reviewers. It's also good for their careers.
Little work has yet been done on exploring how more ambitious open science principles might be deployed across both the qualitative and quantitative social science disciplines.
Universities should reward more than research outputs.
Researchers are creating grass-roots collaborative networks to tackle difficult questions in primate studies and more, but they need funding and other support.
Obscure, generations-old theorems have been transformative in tech, and there are still plenty out there to be used, says maths professor David Sumpter
The Doomsday Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.
Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding.
How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.
The role they play in evaluations for graduate school admissions, fellowships and jobs can be baffling.
From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say.
Members of the OCLC Research Team discuss their project examining changes to library work, collections, and engagement experiences and how they will lead to the future of libraries.
COP26 energized the global effort to halt global warming. Research is now crucial to monitoring progress and creating solutions.
What the Manhattan Project's scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer and his physicist-colleagues went through after the war holds lessons for us today, hoping for the end of our own generation's global crisis.
Emotions enhance our process of reasoning and aid decision-making, says the author and physicist Leonard Mlodinow
To speed research, express conclusions as testable statements, and incorporate testing into training.
What can research societies do to improve accessibility and equity in Open Research? Haseeb Irfanullah suggests ways we can transform our outlook and efforts.
