The Commission's Innovation Agenda, adopted last week, has been welcomed in central and eastern Europe for its high-profile acknowledgement of the innovation divide within Europe, and for nailing down the EU's most urgent innovation challenges.
Faced with the challenge of advising the World Health Organization on who should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory group used an approach it hadn't tried before.
Science is riddled with stories of getting scooped, data glitches and funding crises. Five researchers share stories of how they rallied.
With no research institute in Nepal equipped to support her drought research, Hemu Kafle helped establish a new one.
Maya Gosztyla decided to rethink her approach to research papers after she had trouble keeping track of the published literature.
This article illustrates the Bayesian Ranking and Lottery approach for two SNSF grant schemes in career and project funding.
As a chance observation threatens to unravel several years of work, a PhD student must choose what to do next.
Assessing the environment in purely monetary terms can harm people and the planet.
After four years at the helm of the European Commission's research directorate-general, Jean-Eric Paquet is now getting ready to become EU ambassador to Japan on 1 September. Paquet has been steering the directorate-general since three months before the Commission published its proposal for the Horizon Europe programme.
It seems obvious that lowering the cost of communication among innovators would facilitate scientific and technological progress. Yet, few studies examine this relationship.
With the United Kingdom ever more likely to leave the European Union's science-funding programmes, an alternative has been proposed.
There is a significant global lack of policy action on consumption of sustainable diets. Application of political science theories such as theories of the policy process can help in understanding policy inaction. Applying these theories could provide a more in-depth understanding of how various influences on the policy process shape decision making for consumption of sustainable diet policy.
Supporting and enhancing pollinators could help stabilise the production of important crops like oilseeds and fruit.
"Now, I see that even the woman has a life."
An inquiry into a university lecturer found he breached policy in an unprofessional relationship with a student.
With the easing of the global COVID-19 pandemic, conference organizers now have the option to return to in-person conferencing once again.
Community engagement enabled Jessica Eise to boost the relevance of her research. Here are her six tips for how to do this.
For astrobiologists, the first image from Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope reveals infinite possibilities of life beyond Earth, says this author.
Since March, dozens of researchers from Ukraine have been welcomed at Swiss universities through a special scheme organised by the Scholars at Risk network and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
For sea life, the ocean is becoming an intolerable racket.
Impacts on research are being felt more widely than just in Ukraine and Russia.
This Perspective delivers an introduction to syndemic thinking, and provides insights into how epidemics interact and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this information.
Shortly after celebrating the 15th anniversary of its zero waste commitment, the Tuscan city of Capannori has become a Zero Waste City.
