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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Networking and Information Technology R&D program (NITRD) on Tuesday introduced a slew of new big-data collaboration projects aimed at stimulating private-sector interest in federal data.
Big science is under big pressure at the NIH. Gone are the glory days of the early 2000s, when a doubling of the agency's budget over five years allowed it to establish dozens of programmes with their own large, dedicated budgets.
US and UK governments have launched the Global Innovation Initiative, a grant competition created to strengthen higher education research partnerships between the U.S., the UK and selected countries (Brazil, China, India and Indonesia).
The number of international students in US higher education has reached an all-time high according to an authoritative report.
What are biologists so afraid of? Physicists, mathematicians and social scientists routinely post their research to preprint servers such as arXiv.org before publication, yet few life scientists follow suit. A website that goes live this week is hoping to change that.
Personal Genome Project UK will make participants' medical information available for anyone to see online
Professor David Nutt is the winner of the 2013 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science. The international prize is awarded for courage in promoting science and evidence on a matter of public interest.
Join us at this year's SpotOn London conference on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th November. Now celebrating its sixth year, SpotOn London is an annual two-day conference hosted by Nature Publishing Group for anyone interested in how science is communicated and carried out online.
The only U.S. senator to receive a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) says one of her top priorities in her first term is to increase federal support for academic research and eliminate restrictions on NSF funding for political science research.
The end of Russian science or the start of a new era? Either way, the government's reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences has fuelled a vicious debate. Fiona Clark reports from Moscow.
Tilmann Warnecke Der Wissenschaftsrat will Unirankings neu erfinden, doch auch sein "Forschungsrating" ist umstritten. Jetzt soll es auf bis zu 25 Fächer ausgeweitet werden. Der Wissenschaftsrat hält an seinem umstrittenen „Forschungsrating" fest und will es in den kommenden Jahren auf bis zu 25 Fächer ausweiten.
Research repository launches comment platform for post-publication peer review.
A senior official from the European Union has visited Israel to inform the government that it will find a solution to ensure Israel's participation in the scientific Horizon 2020 project, Haaretz newspaper has claimed.
The process of applying for research funds has been simplified into a single set of evaluation criteria
Business Key documents for Horizon 2020 are circulating on the Internet. The Commission needs to put order into the timely and fair distribution of this information.
Reproducibility Initiative Receives $1.3M Grant to Validate 50 Landmark Cancer
The government may finally be on a path to reopening, but the shutdown’s effects will linger for scientists studying everything from climate change to cancer.
Despite Friday's €70m rescue of the Spanish National Research Council, Spain's scientists are still in mourning. Amaya Moro Martín sets the scene as a range of commentators identify the challenges still facing Spanish science
Universities need a "cultural change" towards teaching, the universities minister, David Willetts, has argued, as a survey of UK undergraduates showed they were being set less work and received notably less tutor feedback than did their peers 50 years ago.
Just another talking club or a genuine attempt to give science more weight in policy matters of global importance? Time will tell whether the United Nations' newly created scientific advisory board, whose members were announced last week, will indeed influence the business of international policy-making in practice.
Dmitry Medvedev appointed Oleg Ostapenko as new director of Russia's crisis-ridden space agency, Roscosmos.
Although UK's research funding might be protected, the research councils themselves face a squeeze on their operational costs.
Janet Woodcock, Head of the Food and Drug Administration’s pharmaceutical division, announced plans to retire within the year.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives tonight voted to end a partial shutdown of the U.S. government that has paralyzed science funding agencies, disrupted research projects and meetings, and threatened to wipe out an entire season of field studies.
Software experiment raises prospect of extra peer review.
The success of Sao Paulo's way of funding science has made it a model throughout Brazil: Sao Paulo produces 50 per cent of Brazilian science through FAPESP which receives one per cent of state tax revenue. The model allows for long-term planning and other states are now emulating it.
The just-elected parliament will face several key decisions on research funding, which will have far-reaching consequences for German scientists. Several big funding programs run out between 2015 and 2019, and the next government will shape their replacements. There is broad support across parties, however, for continuing the programs in some form.
Kurz vor der Wahl hat der Bundesrat ein Gesetz durchgewunken, das wissenschaftlichen Urhebern mehr Rechte einräumt. Weder Forscher noch Verlage sind zufrieden damit.
At the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, efforts to explore the scientific literature have shifted away from peer review and into other areas, such as bias and authorship. With a dearth of available data and funding, large systematic studies of how peer review works and doesn't aren't easy to get off the ground.
