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Germany universities should carry out risk assessments when collaborating with China on sensitive technologies, after a string of investigations revealed that German researchers have been working on projects useful to the Chinese military.
A year has passed since Russia started to wage a gruesome war against Ukraine. Aside from causing thousands of deaths, displacing millions and causing a pan-European economic crisis, the invasion triggered a fundamental rethinking of German policy.
ChatGPT might not yet give us sparkling prose. But it can free scientists up to focus on more-stimulating writing tasks.
Marc Lemaître, the new chief of the EU's research directorate takes office today, he will apply his experience in Cohesion policy to promote greater coordination between research funding and regional development funding, increasing the impact of both.
Can science papers be more transparent with respect to who thought of each idea, who ran each experiment, and who analysed the data?
You can only do transformative work at scale if human relationships are at the heart. Transformative relationships are critical to success.
Two years ago, this journal pledged to report on the diversity of sources in our journalistic content. The first results are now in.
Film-makers should retire the cliche of the lone male scientific genius.
Sweden kicked off a five-month push to deepen EU cooperation on research infrastructures and open data sharing, at an informal meeting of research ministers in Stockholm on Wednesday. The six-month Swedish presidency of the EU isn't introducing new topics to the table but homing in on two that have been discussed for years: research infrastructures and open science publishing.
Part two of an introduction to two new toolkits from C4DISC -- today a look at the Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Amid stalemate over UK joining Horizon Europe due to Northern Ireland protocol, Michelle Donelan looks to allies outside bloc.
This article is part of a series of opinions Science|Business is publishing on the EU's strategic autonomy agenda, and its impact on global R&D. A complete report will be published and discussed at the annual Science|Business Network conference 7 February.
Federal scientists would largely be barred from publicly discussing research, which could have a "chilling effect", experts say.
Now is not the time to undermine positive moves over the future of EU-UK science collaboration.
It takes at least 30 hours to fly halfway round the world from Brussels to Wellington, with several jetlagged stops on the way. In fact, with most of the EU exactly 12 hours behind New Zealand, even scheduling a Zoom call is a challenge.
A controversial policy change threatens to upend large social-media studies.
He Jiankui refused to answer researchers' questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event.
High-quality research requires appropriate employment and working conditions for researchers. However, many academic systems rely on short-term employment contracts, biased selection procedures and misaligned incentives, which hinder research quality and progress. We discuss ways to redesign academic systems, emphasizing the role of permanent employment.
Faced with a deluge of papers, journal editors are struggling to find willing peer reviewers.
Group leaders voice their struggles with mental health to remove stigma and bolster institutional support.
Universities must change so that the scientific enterprise can respond to the climate crisis.
Democratic countries are bound by economic reality to work together rather than put up barriers to cross-border collaboration. Companies must spearhead the R&D cooperation, argues the lead for a new Fraunhofer USA initiative.
The first of a two part series introducing new toolkits from C4DISC: Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication and the Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. The authors of this article suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.
Stronger research into policy innovation and behavioural change, new technologies to increase resource efficiency, and nature-positive food production innovation - these are three asks of European scientists by Sweden's climate minister Romina Pourmokhtari.
Former universities minister Michelle Donelan is appointed head of newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in mini-reshuffle.
