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Applied physicist would bring wealth of policy experience as successor to Eric Lander.
Experts say the country's strong scientific performance is likely to be sustained in the coming years.
EU efforts to reduce the east-west gap in research and innovation should be backed by investment and reforms in member states, the EU auditor says in a report reviewing funding schemes set up by the European Commission to help bridge the divide.
Researchers are already moving to countries where it is easier to operate and collaborate.
The robotic spacecraft unravels the history of the our galaxy's evolution - and could identify habitable regions of the Milky Way
Springer Nature editors urge consideration of the potential harms of all research relating to human populations, not just that directly involving human participants.
The European Research Council (ERC) is set to introduce lump sum funding to its Advanced grants for experienced researchers starting in 2024.
How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?
Research leaders have this week put their weight behind a manifesto calling for moves to make research careers more attractive in a bid to stop the brain drain away from science.
The engineer says the system has the perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to, a human child.
Some British researchers who had secured Horizon Europe funding have already been told that their grants will be cancelled.
EU science ministers signed off an agreement backing research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions.
At least half a dozen UK-based researchers have already lost coordination roles in Horizon Europe consortia because of the failure of Brussels and London to agree UK association to the programme, with the true tally losing out on leadership positions likely much higher.
Over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has stepped up its scientific production and its investment in higher education.
Life scientists are often oblivious to the risk of creating deadly new pathogens that could escape from the lab, a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report has warned, as the body draws up new global safety guidelines.
The world has changed a lot since our last global survey of PhD students in 2019. This year's survey includes master's students for the first time.
The Swiss National Science Foundation's 'narrative' template seeks evidence of applicants' wider contributions to science.
Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT grads, has transformed a John Deere into the world's first zero-emission, ammonia-powered tractor.
Discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions
A collaboration between scientists and Native American tribes finds tree density in parts of the Klamath Mountains is at a record high, and at risk of serious wildfires.
Member states are set to adopt a position backing research assessment reform in Europe - but they'll stress that any reforms must take into account the diversity of research systems in the EU, according to a draft document seen by Science|Business. Research ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Friday to sign off Council conclusions for research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions.
The UK is working on a "bigger, better" rival to the European Research Council as part of an alternative to the Horizon Europe, in response to growing fears that the country will not associate to the framework programme.
As eLife moves towards a 'publish, review, curate' model that puts preprints first, the two initiatives will work together to promote diversity in open scholarly review.
In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle -- from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.
