UK’s newly minted unified funding agency has released the first outline of its strategy. The long-awaited document gives the nation’s researchers an insight into how the mega-funding agency - which will command a budget of GBP6 billion (USD8 billion) - will work.

The Wellcome Trust vows to pull grants if researchers or institutions do not abide by its new misconduct policy.

Institutions including Oxford and Cambridge under scrutiny as the number of academic misconduct cases surges.

Pay disparities at science employers outpace national average for all firms.

Just five out of 57 appointed members of the new UK Research and Innovation unified research funding body are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds.

The UK’s continued participation in European Union research programmes and bodies such as the European Medicines Agency should be among the criteria by which a Brexit deal is judged, MPs have said.

Dr Patrick Vallance starts in his role as Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) today.

EU leaders’ rejection of British government requests for associate membership of EU agencies and programmes after Brexit has been met with widespread dismay.

Science and Technology Committee publishes report on Brexit, science and innovation calling for an early deal for science and research with the EU - to be in place by October 2018 or earlier if possible.

UK to remain part of the EU single market and customs union, as well as EU programmes, between 29 March 2019 - the date it leaves the block - and 31 December 2020, the end of the transition period.

Pioneering dementia scientist Prof John Hardy to donate prize money to anti-Brexit group.

Given significant changes in publishing research article over the past dozen or so years, the Wellcome Trust thinks the time is right to look again at its OA policy.

Pension changes spur more than 40,000 university academics to walk out on research activities, conferences and lectures.

Institutions have made little progress against the misuse of research metrics when hiring and promoting academics.

Birmingham Health Partners will lead one of six new sites across the UK created to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science, funded by £30 million from Health Data Research UK.

All seven of the UK’s research councils have signed up to a declaration that calls for the academic community to stop using journal impact factors as a proxy for the quality of scholarship.

UK announces plans for the ethical oversight of AI as it is increasingly used to drive cars, diagnose patients and even to help determine prison sentences.

The UK has gained a new science minister as part of a broader reshuffle of government posts. Sam Gyimah, who moves from the Ministry of Justice, was appointed minister for universities and science on 9 January, replacing Jo Johnson.

New figures show a 19 per cent increase in departures of European staff from UK universities last year compared to before the EU referendum, and a 10 per cent rise from some 2130 resignations in 2015-16.

The drop in the UK’s share of EU funding for research and innovation has been steepest in the more collaborative parts of the Framework programme.

Dominic Raab, the justice minister, has said that the UK government will lay out "its vision" for cooperation with the European Atomic Energy Community, Euratom, within weeks.

Without action, the UK might end up in the situation of funding both subscriptions and article-processing charges on an ongoing basis.