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The sentiment is widely shared in Brazil’s scientific community, where many feared a second term for Bolsonaro might be catastrophic for issues they care about, including support for science, climate policy, and deforestation.
If intelligence analysis is to improve, we must learn from our new understanding of cognitive bias.
The director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy plays a critical role in achieving the president's science goals. Facilitating cooperation among the dozens of research agencies is key.
An ongoing narrative seeks to shift the blame away from the government for mismanagement of the pandemic, by depicting it as beholden to all-powerful scientists.
What has been the impact of fake news on votes for populist parties in recent elections?
Fed up with what they saw as inaction by policymakers, three climate change scientists called on their colleagues to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting process.
Ecologists and policymakers presented their perspectives at a debate on biodiversity.
In recent years, the world's leading industrialised nations have been moving to defend their science and technology from perceived threats from China, Russia and elsewhere. Now, they're trying to counter another risk: that their security measures could harm their own science.
Russian researchers are losing access to vital lab equipment and computing power as western sanctions against the country begin to bite, potentially crippling Russia's scientific base.
Russia says Ukraine and its allies are planning a "dirty" weapons attack. The US says that's false. But what are these weapons and who has them?
The right to a healthy environment and a safe climate for all should be on the agenda for the proposed Citizens' Assembly.
Public perceptions of climate change, the future cost and effectiveness of climate mitigation and technologies, and how political institutions respond to public pressure are all important determinants of how climate will change, according to a new study.
As Switzerland celebrates and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the federal referendum on women’s suffrage, the Swiss Science Council takes the opportunity to look back at its own history.
The ELN's Sylvia Mishra writes that AI-generated fake videos - deep fakes - threaten to exacerbate chaos in conflict, lower nuclear thresholds and complicate nuclear weapons decision-making. The uncontrolled use and spread of this technology requires urgent attention from the nuclear policy community.
Results from some of the innovative EU-funded research that help us to better understand the major political issues of the day and provide recommendations for policymakers, citizens and other organisations to better respond to the threats facing European democracy.
Covid has put academics at the heart of policymaking, but electing better politicians could be the answer.
