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After setting sail nearly ten years ago, Europe's billion-euro flagship programmes have encountered many a stormy sea. But while one programme dedicated to graphene remains very much afloat, another - focused on the human brain - is foundering.
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Adam Shore, Director of the School of Business and Management at Liverpool John Moores University, Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools' Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee, and Board Director of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). This blog is the sixth in our series on leadership […]
eLife is changing its editorial process to emphasize public reviews and assessments of preprints by eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review.
If intelligence analysis is to improve, we must learn from our new understanding of cognitive bias.
It is often taken as a given that higher education shapes the politics of students. However, drawing on evidence from the British Election Study, Tom Fryer finds students' political attitudes do not change radically during their studies.
The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor says every government department needs to take science into consideration and invest more in R&D.
Researchers fear further cuts to funding and a lack of action on climate.
New Prime Minister Liz Truss has yet to appoint someone to oversee research, and her economic policy has sparked a currency crisis.
Nature examines its history in order to acknowledge it - and learn from it.
Times have changed, and the conditions that fostered the rise of liberal arts and sciences programs after the start of the Bologna reforms no longer obtain. This raises the question of how the liberal arts and sciences movement will continue in the near future. Can it still have any relevance in a changing context?
The OSTP Nelson Memo has caused quite a stir in scholarly communication circles. How will academia handle the zero embargo?
Leader of Russia's largest chipmaker elected president after incumbent's sudden withdrawal.
The ERC funds curiosity-driven research without predetermined thematic priorities. Even so, ERC grantees often tackle global challenges in their research, offering innovative and sustainable solutions. With the intention to map the breadth and diversity of the research it supports, the ERC analysed the content of the projects funded under the Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation. The analysis gives a comprehensive picture of ERC frontier research across scientific fields, including interdisciplinary crossovers and collaborations.
Climate tipping points are conditions beyond which changes in a part of the climate system become self-perpetuating. These changes may lead to abrupt, irreversible, and dangerous impacts with serious implications for humanity.
Populist slogans won't cut it: the new UK government has nothing to lose and everything to gain by working constructively with scientists and universities.
Liz Truss may not honor promises by outgoing leader Boris Johnson to make the United Kingdom a "science superpower".
Scientists can take practical steps to prevent or pre-empt problems on social media.
The challenge of demonstrating the value of the humanities can never be fully accomplished by showing that the humanities serve other disciplines.
Findings show that countries in sub-Saharan Africa publish and cite open access literature at a higher rate than the rest of the world.
Lab-grown spinal cords and glowing fish larvae are among the images in an annual competition to find the best pictures taken under the microscope,
