Top 10% of grantees get 37% of the money.

Researchers had complained about proposal review process, success rates.

The European Research Council is planning to reduce the budgets for its single-investigator grants in 2018, to fund the return of the multi-investigator Synergy Grants.

Macron's promise to ring fence university funding did not last two months, says the National Union of Higher Education.

Google wants to move on from this discussion and let the academics speak for themselves.

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House of Representatives spending panel adds language that limits the National Science Foundation’s ability to set priorities.

Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives also rejects a White House plan to cut 'indirect cost' payments to research institutions.

Measure would prevent Trump administration from slashing portion of grant that covers indirect costs

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.