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Many land-grant schools have submitted bids despite objections by researchers
Funders and publishers have a lot to gain from sharing and aligning peer reviews.
Launch of the ORCID funder open letter: Nine funding bodies are committed to expanding the use of ORCID in their grant applications.
In 2019, innovation funding will be increasingly randomised.
The humanities subjects do not benefit from the research excellence framework. They need a better system.
A study evaluating two aspects of the selection process of the top-ranked applicants to the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship program in 2007.
Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding 'excellence' is hampering new research, says Dutch institute
Research funders impose length limits on applications for practical reasons: to discourage epic submissions, and to ease the burden on reviewers. It’s also true that concise ideas are generally stronger ideas. But sticking to these limits can often seem a difficult and frustrating task.
Debate over a new idea for stopping malaria is pitting some environmental groups against Bill Gates.
Mozilla Science Mini Grants are now open for applications.
The European Commission launched today the sixth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize sheds light on the outstanding work of female entrepreneurs who have brought their ideas to market, and aims to inspire the next generation of innovators.
Funding could help quantum technology gain commercial footholds in Europe.
Bill Gates and the European Commission have launched a €100 million investment fund designed to bring radical clean energy technologies more quickly to market in order to promote energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers warn that the country's science infrastructure is at risk of collapse if austerity measures continue.
Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people.
For the first time, the Wellcome Trust is publishing received project proposals, and will be adding funding decisions end of October.
Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.
