Spain needs to set out a wider and clear OS strategy and take decisive, coordinated actions that build upon and improve existing structures to bring itself back to the forefront of OS.

As the pandemic worsened in the United Kingdom during spring 2020, political disputes turned in a strange direction. The UK government started to claim that the UK’s Covid-19 statistics could not be compared with any other country.

Prof. Liselotte Højgaard shares her first impressions as a new member of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC) and explains what makes the ERC so important for long-term frontier research.

Virtual Conference: Academia in times of crises. 

After watching this short film on how much data private companies are able to gather about you (data that we willingly give them in some cases), you might be forgiven for thinking that, never mind some far flung future, we are living in a full-on dystopia right now.

Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you. Who can apply? Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants - called Principal Investigators (PI) - are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years. The Principal Investigators should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.

A new technology developed by researchers from the University of Zürich enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are needed. The innovation could reduce the side effects of cancer therapy and may hold the solution to better delivery of Covid-related therapies directly to the lungs.

The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.

This is a series of webinars on six engaging and relevant topics as a precursor to a live event in 2022. These discussions will form part of the broader RI dialogue, and set a foundation we hope to build on in Cape Town when the RI community gather to – at long last – meet in person. 

Decades of misinformation and bad science has distorted what we think about illicit drugs - but that's changing. We're exploring what this paradigm shift could mean for our health and well-being.

Our feline friends certainly wow us with their cleverness - they can fetch things, open doors, navigate seemingly impossible obstacles, and even understand basic instructions (when they feel like it, anyway).

One of the biggest antitrust lawsuits in the history of Big Tech kicked off this week - here's what you need to know.

Can you upload a CSV file? Are you an ORCID Consortia Member? Then you can add affiliation data to your researchers' records with our Affiliation Manager!

In the introductory talk of this event, the speakers argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism.