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Hungarian academics are hopeful that an EU ruling banning 30 institutions, including 21 universities, from Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ will finally be lifted with the election of a new government.
Why do studies on whether religion is disappearing totally contradict each other? Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx discuss their recent research on how faith (or lack of it) shaped interventions in the secularisation debate and suggest how the social sciences could benefit from less adversarial claims to objectivity in research.
Branding scientific research with a simplified label risks misleading the public and harming scientific literacy.
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are promoted because of their contribution to addressing complex societal challenges. However, barriers to these research modes persist, some of which emerge from challenges in assessing inter- and transdisciplinary research. This article uses the sensitising concept of ‘values’ to study the entanglement of inter- and transdisciplinary research practices and their assessment.
EU governments have key questions to resolve if agreement on the next EU research programme is to be reached in May.
Efforts to advance towards a more sustainable world focus heavily on a limited set of actions and actors while overlooking key strategies and sectors needed to address the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, according to a new study.
According to data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the share of US basic and applied research funded by the federal government dropped from nearly 48% in 2009 to just over 34% in 2023. As that decline is likely to continue, some state governments are responding by boosting their research spending.
After a year of Trump, a former US diplomat suggests what the EU can do to bring American science back from the brink
"Enshittification" isn’t just confined to the online world. In fact, it’s now visible in academic publishing and occurs in five stages. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say.
It's getting harder for scientists from around the world to work together. Researchers must find ways to adapt.
For a country often celebrated for its composers, digital statecraft and quietly radical governance, Estonia has now achieved something even more improbable; according to a new analysis of global citation data, this nation of 1.3 million has become the world’s third most scientifically wealthy country.
A new Trump administration plan to expand the use of artificial intelligence in US science could boost research productivity. But, it also highlights a need for more global cooperation in AI development.
The Guardian's View on Animal Testing: New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. This isn't just morally right, it could have scientific and economic benefits too
While Open Science infrastructures are used a lot, their funding is precarious. TSOSI is a project that aims to improve this situation by making financial support for open infrastructure more visible.
