Agency wants to reassess infrastructure spending

Nearly half of all young Canadian health researchers say they are seriously considering leaving the country because of lack of financial support, according to an informal survey that comes as the federal government is signalling more support for basic science and for young scientists.

The National Science Foundation has paused a grant scheme that keeps biological collections afloat, and scientists are mad.

Key panel wants to break up Commerce Department and redirect NSF and DOE research

Trudeau government plans big spending increases for science

Online pilot program will connect unfunded grant applications with foundations

Historic win by Google DeepMind's Go-playing program has South Korean government playing catch-up on artificial intelligence.

Applicable to all grant proposals received by the FWF after April 1, 2016.

Decision by US National Science Foundation could hamper research on conservation biology, climate change and invasive species.

Roscosmos will receive a 30 percent cut amid country's economic problems.

Survey finds that 24% of research projects get new titles, up from 10% in 2012

It is now easier to obtain a clear and transparent overview of the thousands of scientific research projects funded by the SNSF. Its P3 database has been redesigned to display information interactively.

A proposal for a more peer review based funding of Swedish research prepared by the Swedish Research Council has been rejected by a majority of Swedish universities.

Organisations receiving government grants will be banned from using these taxpayer funds to lobby government and Parliament.

Although overall resource funding will rise, most of this extra money will go to multidisciplinary research

Some fear that science in Indian higher education institutions could stagnate under the proposed 2016–17 budget.

The latest Federal Scientific Activities report indicates that Canada's federal government expenditures on science and technology for 2013/2014 will decline 3.3 per cent from the previous year.

Rescuers working on the front lines of massive marine mammal die-offs on both U.S. coasts have been dealt a hard blow during an already difficult year. On Tuesday, dozens of rescue centers learned they wouldn't be getting any federal financial help for the next year.

A new joint survey out today found that nearly half (46%) of 3,165 scientists in the United States reported they've laid off scientists due to sequester budget cuts or they will have to lay off scientists. Also, more than 54% or those surveyed know a colleague who has lost his or her job or expects to soon.

Laura Niedernhofer is counting her pennies. The mid-career molecular biologist moved last year to the Scripps Research Institute's campus in Jupiter, Florida - a risky decision that saw her building a new laboratory group at a time when the US government was cutting its support for science.

Two years after House Republicans threatened not to raise the government's debt ceiling, the full brunt of that once-unthinkable offense is now hitting the NIH. As Annie Lowrey reported in The Times this morning, 2013 has been the "darkest ever" year for the agency, because the budget cuts demanded by Republicans are taking a significant toll on research into medical cures.

Science is a big winner in Japan's 2014 budget, with the education ministry requesting $12 billion for S&T, a 20% increase over the current year's funding. Biomedical research is about to take off thanks to plans to create a Japanese version of the NIH.

The amount of government funding for science and technology in Canada is expected to decline for another year.