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A paper arguing that researchers could, on average, maintain current PhD student and Postdoc employment levels, and still have at their disposal a moderate to considerable budget for travel and equipment, depeding on the country.
Instead of making scientists compete for grants based on project proposals, research funding could simply be divided equally among all ‘qualified’ researchers, according to a new paper.
Scientists have few direct incentives to replicate other researchers’ work, including precious little funding to do replications. Can that change?
Find out how Pure is giving the Research Council of Norway access to a global pool of experts for its wide variety of projects.
How cryptocurrencies may generate capital for scientific funding via dividend reinvestment.
A new study confirms what many already know: Exxon for years sowed uncertainty and doubt about climate change in the public. Should scientists reject certain funding sources?
Ismail Serageldin, founding director of the Library of Alexandria, has appealed a 3.5-year prison term
A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.
The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.
Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.
Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.
On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.
Climate change is the perfect example of how a cut-and-dry scientific issue can become controversial if it is represented consistently in partisan terms. Let’s not drag funding into the fray as well.
Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives also rejects a White House plan to cut 'indirect cost' payments to research institutions.
