The UK government has published guidance aimed at helping universities and higher education providers recognise, prevent and report foreign interference, as part of efforts to protect academic freedom, people and research.
Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists.
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) richtet neun weitere Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) ein.
On 30 January 2026, the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) published its future agenda for Germany as a centre of science and research, entitled "Science in Germany - Perspectives until 2040". sets out a future agenda for Germany as a centre of science.
Geopolitical imperatives should not give the Commission the right to move funding at its discretion, Lewandowski says
The traditional commercialisation paradigm isn't the only way to approach knowledge exchange. Kim Stuart and Audrey Cumberford explain a new initiative in Scotland spanning modern and smaller universities and the college sector
Although modern science has only been around for a few centuries, we've become quite adept at training students in the scientific method. But learning how to translate research insights into practical actions often isn't part of a budding scientist's curriculum.
The groundbreaking inquiry follows a complaint from a Polish company that the use of AI to evaluate its EIC bid was unfair.
Controversial model points to benefits of more opinionated reviews.
A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.
EU leaders call for urgent action on strategic technologies at industry summit, but remain divided over approach
Peer review, many boffins argue, channelling Churchill, is the worst way to ensure quality of research, except all the others. The system, which relies on papers being vetted by anonymous experts prior to publication, has underpinned scientific literature for decades.
