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Next EU Research Fund Needs to Help Start-Ups to Scale-Up

Next EU Research Fund Needs to Help Start-Ups to Scale-Up

Fear of investing in innovation is preventing promising start-ups from reaching their full potential and that’s preventing growth across Europe, a conference on the future of EU research funding heard.

AI Zooms in on Highly Influential Citations

AI Zooms in on Highly Influential Citations

Semantic Scholar is the first scientific engine to automatically identify the subset of a paper's citations in which the paper had a strong impact on the citing work.

AI Is Changing How We Do Science. Get a Glimpse

AI Is Changing How We Do Science. Get a Glimpse

AI systems spot new particles, see galaxies, sense the public mood from social media.

Next Big Science-Funding Programme Urged to Double its Budget

Next Big Science-Funding Programme Urged to Double its Budget

Influential report suggests simpler, more citizen-friendly system for post-2020 EU research funding.

Framework Programme Set to Go Global

Framework Programme Set to Go Global

Framework 9 should be opened up to countries beyond Europe’s neighbours so that the EU can benefit more from global talent, a group of insiders has said.

Government Funding of Both Basic and Applied Research Is Essential

Government Funding of Both Basic and Applied Research Is Essential

We have heard a lot of discussion in the U.S. recently in favor of government support for basic research but against support of applied research.

What Does It Mean to Be Called a 'Trainee'?

What Does It Mean to Be Called a 'Trainee'?

The ‘trainee’ designation has broad implications, noted speakers at the Future of Biomedical Graduate and Postdoctoral Training meeting earlier this month.

Berlin Universities Cancel Contract with International Publisher Elsevier

Berlin Universities Cancel Contract with International Publisher Elsevier

Berlin Universities demand fair prices and free access to information.

Cambridge Researchers Fight Back Against ‘Bad Science’

Cambridge Researchers Fight Back Against ‘Bad Science’

A group of junior researchers at Cambridge have established a campaign against the damaging pressure to produce 'sexier' results

Academics Strike Back Against Bad Science

Academics Strike Back Against Bad Science

Fed up with the relentless pressure to produce reams of jazzed-up findings, a group of junior researchers at the University of Cambridge are fighting back with a campaign called Bullied into Bad Science.

Trump Cuts to NSF Mostly Rejected by House Panel

Trump Cuts to NSF Mostly Rejected by House Panel

A House of Representatives spending panel wants to spare the National Science Foundation (NSF) from most of the 11% cut that was proposed by President Donald Trump for its 2018 budget.

EMBL Council selects next Director General

EMBL Council selects next Director General

EMBL Council selected Edith Heard as the organisation's fifth Director General. Heard's mandate is scheduled to begin 1 January 2019.

Survey Reveals Basic Research in Canada Is Falling by the Wayside

Survey Reveals Basic Research in Canada Is Falling by the Wayside

The number of researchers who work on basic science questions has dropped precipitously.

Lawmakers' Science Spending Plans Ignore Trump Cuts

Lawmakers' Science Spending Plans Ignore Trump Cuts

NASA sees a slight increase under the proposed budget while funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is cut by 13%.

'Exaggerations' Threaten Public Trust in Science

'Exaggerations' Threaten Public Trust in Science

David Spiegelhalter, president of Royal Statistical Society, says sloppy attitude to statistics leads to misleading claims and draws parallels to rise of fake news

Decision by Europe’s Top Court Alarms Vaccine Experts

Decision by Europe’s Top Court Alarms Vaccine Experts

Patients can plead their case for damages even in the absence of scientific evidence, European Court of Justice rules