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.

The World Academic Summit Innovation Index finds that university scientific researchers from many Asian nations are attracting substantially more industry funding per researcher than their American counterparts.

NSF invests $20 million in large projects to keep the nation's cyberspace secure and trustworthy: Three large "Frontier" collaborative projects highlight efforts to tackle fundamental challenges in cybersecurity.

The European Union's Horizon 2020 research program will offer researchers a generous source of funds for projects to resolve the challenges of today's society.

Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.

ERC funds 135 Proof of Concept grants, a press release.

Scientists who submit grant applications to the NIH will be required to explain the scientific premise behind their proposals and defend the quality of their experimental designs.

Science spending in Singapore is set to surge by 18%.

The spending bill for the federal government ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH.

Italian politicians have kindled the wrath of some biomedical scientists by hand-picking a stem-cell clinical trial for funding.

The Wellcome Trust is to fund more long-term research projects because of fears that the pressure to publish and the need to show research impact will prevent academics from successfully tackling the world's most pressing challenges.