MEPs have sung the praises of Horizon 2020 in a debate about its mid-term evaluation, and unanimously called for a bigger budget for its successor programme, Framework 9.

Online platform aims to make peer review faster, unbiased and less of a burden on researchers

There are many obstacles to bringing the power of 21st-century technology to the NHS. But that shouldn't stop us trying.

Orpington MP keeps role in Theresa May's post-election reshuffle

Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.

Why have so few been retired to sanctuaries?

Google more than doubled investments its pharma investments in each of the last two years.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

Preprints acceptable for citation in research grant and fellowship applications.

The challenges facing researchers in Japan and some of the structural weaknesses holding science back.

What results-free review might mean for authors, reviewers, editors and readers.

Government offers 4-year grants worth up to €1.5million

NIH plans to set up a separate fund for early- to mid-career investigators.

House spending panel backs agency but offers no promises

Google and its rivals are pushing into machine-learning diagnoses.

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs.

Approach allows reviewers to focus on the stuff they know best, speeds up process.

The NIH abandons its controversial plan to cap grants to big lab and it creates a new fund for younger scientists.

ETH Zurich at position 10, EPFL at position 12.

An international league of scientists is kicking off the decades-long process of developing the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

Dr. Francis Collins, a holdover from the Obama administration, will remain director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced.

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs

With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.

Why are science and maths teachers more likely to leave the profession?

NSF’s Directorate of Biological Sciences just announced that they are getting rid of the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) program.

Long-time physician-scientist retains job he has held since 2009.

The rules fail to make data sharing mandatory for papers to be published, which raises the prospect that some authors might decide to ignore the hint.

Academic journals don’t select the research they publish on scientific rigour alone. So why aren’t academics taking to the streets about this?

Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.

Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials