Signal of gravitational waves was too weak to be significant, studies suggest.

Neues Förderungsprogramm ermöglicht Nachwuchsforschenden in der Medizin, ihre Arbeit in der Klinik zu reduzieren. Zugunsten ihrer Forschung.

Launch of the new interdisciplinary Francis Crick Institute in central London.

Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.

Mice or rats, pigs or dogs, they were usually male: researchers avoided using female animals for fear that their reproductive cycles and hormone fluctuations would confound the results of delicately calibrated experiments.

Its opening represents a key step in the university’s plans to improve the experience for its 3,500 postdocs, who comprise the largest group of staff at Cambridge.

130 Millionen Franken gibt die staatliche Innovationsförderstelle KTI jedes Jahr für Projekte und Jungunternehmen aus. Eine Untersuchung auf Druck der Finanzkontrolle förderte gravierende Missstände zutage.

Die Universität Fribourg erhält erstmals in ihrer 125-jährigen Geschichte eine Rektorin: Der Senat der Freiburger Hochschule hat am Donnerstag die Juristin Astrid Epiney zur neuen Leiterin der Uni Fribourg gewählt.

“A greater number of Europhobic members … in the European Parliament would certainly have negative consequences on the idea to turn scientific research and innovation into a great European policy” says Jean-Pierre Audy, an EPP parliamentarian from France.

Disagreements may cause "irreparable harm to the German research system," joint statement says

Researchers will now be required to make papers free to read within one year of publication.

The General Assembly of Science Europe has unanimously elected Miguel Seabra, president of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, as the next president of Science Europe.

Erstes Monitoring über alle Aktivitäten auf Schweizer Plattformen zeigt, dass Crowdfunding auch in der Schweiz immer beliebter wird. Gemäss der Studie hat sich das gesammelte Geldvolumen im vergangenen Jahr mehr als verdoppelt.

Roughly 90% of researchers in a recent survey said scientists and policymakers don't communicate enough. But, only about 60% said they were sure of the names of their elected federal representatives.

A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.

Was die Britin Sarah Springman anpackt, macht sie zu Gold. Nun soll sie Rektorin der ETH werden.

In "Falling Behind?" Michael Teitelbaum describes how the "hog cycle" phenomenon played out in the U.S. science and engineering workforce from the end of World War II through the 1998–2005 doubling of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget and subsequent leveling off of funding.

Demand for ERC Starting Grants stabilizes after Switzerland being not eligible for the first time.

A new independent report for CaSE shows that investing public money in science and engineering is good for the economy. [14][two page briefing]

The Wellcome Trust and the RCUK plan to pilot a streamlined endorsement process to make it easier for outstanding international researchers to obtain Tier 1 Exceptional Talent or Exceptional Promise visas.

At the new Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, or Metrics, John P.A. Ioannidis and Steven N. Goodman, both professors of medicine at Stanford, plan to study how research is done, and how it can be done better.

The EU Commission will consider improving Switzerland's status under Horizon 2020, following the announcement by the Swiss government of a plan to facilitate the immigration of Croatian nationals.

The UK has launched a five-year US$630 million fund to support science and innovation partnerships with researchers in developing countries that will focus on economic development.

The NIH is to allow researchers to base new grant applications on ideas that have previously been rejected for funding.

The EU Parliament has adopted a package of public-private and public-public research partnerships worth up to €22bn.

Cancer Research UK, AstraZeneca and Pfizer to create a pioneering clinical trial for patients with advanced lung cancer

The financing of the flagship Human Brain Project is secured through 2016. But what about its future?

Researchers and students are struggling with obstructive rules on immigration to the EU that urgently need updating: scientists from countries outside the EU are not being made welcome and often face problems in moving freely between member states.

Countries from Finland to Portugal are shaping their higher education policies based on outside rankings, eager for the validation and attention the annual lists bestow, even while they are criticized as flawed or misleading.

NASA Scientific relations between Russia and the West have reached their lowest ebb since the cold war, after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.