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Europe's Cutting-edge Research As a Driver of Innovation
Under President Trump's Direction, Scientific Protections Are Disappearing at Record Speed
UKRI Enhances Scrutiny of Research with Potential for Harm
From 2026, applicants for funding from two research councils must provide additional information on managing risk.
State of AI 2025: Five Key Charts for Europeans
The US is now supremely dominant in terms of private investment and compute capacity. But Chinese open models are leading the way.
MEPs Put Europe's Innovation Gap on FP10 Agenda
As Open As Necessary? Research Security, Academic Freedom and the Geopolitics of Science
As Open As Necessary? Research Security, Academic Freedom and the Geopolitics of Science
Academic freedom and the autonomy of science require protection not only against direct state interference, but also against the more subtle colonisation of research by political and economic systems.
How Chinese Paper Mills Use AI to Create 'higher Quality' Academic Fraud
How Chinese Paper Mills Use AI to Create 'higher Quality' Academic Fraud
A Digital Dark Age? The People Rescuing Forgotten Knowledge Trapped on Old Floppy Disks
A Digital Dark Age? The People Rescuing Forgotten Knowledge Trapped on Old Floppy Disks
Pupils Struggle to Tell if AI Content is True, Report Says
Why Sorbonne Pulled out of University Ranking
Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education Rankings. According to its president, most of these rankings are "black boxes" whose methods raise ethical questions.
Federal science on pause amid shutdown: Trump makes offer to nine universities
MIT Rejects Federal Funding Deal with Trump Administration
Research Funders Urged to Drive Culture Shift on Negative Results
Research Funders Urged to Drive Culture Shift on Negative Results
Reform needed to improve trust in science, patient care and training of AI, advocates say.
Scientists Urged to Demand Independent Governance in Horizon Europe
Japan Moving Towards Horizon Europe Association
Japan is edging closer to signing off on a deal to join the EU's €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, with research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva flying to the country on 2 October to continue talks.
Now It's Science Fraud In…Mathematics?
Global Research Collaboration with Israel Sharply Down This Year
Global Research Collaboration with Israel Sharply Down This Year
Swiss Funder Pauses Schemes in Initial Response to ‘Massive’ Cuts
Scheme for unconventional ideas among those hit by Swiss National Science Foundation funding loss.
ChatGPT is Blind to Bad Science
Why Quantum Mechanics Needs Phenomenology
Ethicists Flirt with AI to Review Human Research
Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines.
Can ChatGPT help science writers?
In December 2023, the press office for Science (and the Science family of journals) decided to explore whether ChatGPT Plus had potential as a tool to help writers
Federal Budget Cuts: Impact on the SNSF
'Gold Standard Science' Plans Emphasize Existing Agency Efforts
Far More Authors Use AI to Write Science Papers than Admit it
Report highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text.