A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960.

High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.

Grant will help sequence thousands of plants, insects, and fungi

Italian scientists eager to go for it alone on experiment to tackle ‘waste heat’ problem.

Influential report suggests simpler, more citizen-friendly system for post-2020 EU research funding.

We have heard a lot of discussion in the U.S. recently in favor of government support for basic research but against support of applied research.

Don’t mention the B word: the first major reform of R&D funding since 1965 aims to make the UK the “go-to place” for science.

The proportion of researchers who only conducted fundamental research collapsed, declining from 24% to 1.6% between 2006 and 2015.

A House of Representatives spending panel wants to spare the National Science Foundation (NSF) from most of the 11% cut that was proposed by President Donald Trump for its 2018 budget.

The number of researchers who work on basic science questions has dropped precipitously.

NASA sees a slight increase under the proposed budget while funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is cut by 13%.

The agency says it is shifting to a new strategy but not from its goal of helping younger scientists compete for NIH support.

Funding for basic research will not be affected by the dramatic changes planned for the FP9, acording to Carlos Moedas.

MEPs have sung the praises of Horizon 2020 in a debate about its mid-term evaluation, and unanimously called for a bigger budget for its successor programme, Framework 9.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

NIH plans to set up a separate fund for early- to mid-career investigators.

House spending panel backs agency but offers no promises

The NIH abandons its controversial plan to cap grants to big lab and it creates a new fund for younger scientists.

Dr. Francis Collins, a holdover from the Obama administration, will remain director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced.

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs