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New to Advocacy? 3 Tips for Early Career Scientists
Travel Bans Punish Africa for Its Scientific Leadership
With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
How Africa-led Clinical Trials Are Shaping Vaccine Science
The Dangerous Precedent of Political Interference in Medical Research in Canada
Why being open about science can make people trust it less, and what to do about it
Why being open about science can make people trust it less, and what to do about it
When people trust science, they can make better decisions, follow helpful rules and work together on big problems like health, climate change and new technology. But if people stop trusting science, it's easier for false information to spread, and harder to solve those problems.
Even Honest Research Results Can Flip - a New Approach to Assessing Robustness in the Social Sciences
Even Honest Research Results Can Flip - a New Approach to Assessing Robustness in the Social Sciences
Ask a Scientist: How Does Documenting Attacks on Science Stop Authoritarians?
What's Driving UK Universities to Set Up Campuses in India in a Changing Global Education Order?
Universities Must Lead in Reclaiming Scientific Sovereignty
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme
Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit
Trump Hands Political Appointees Control over Science Funding: Here's Why Researchers Are Sounding the Alarm
What's Coming Up in Research Policy in the Second Half of 2025?
So far, 2025 has seen a flurry of policy initiatives as the new European Commission got down to work. August offers a moment to pause and reflect ahead of a busy autumn.
Exclusive: Retraction-prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
Exclusive: Retraction-prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
Europe is breaking its reliance on American science
European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes
Switzerland Offers No Lifeboat to US Scientists
Experts Defend ERC from Commission Overreach in FP10
The European Commission's push to exert more control over the European Research Council (ERC) risks undermining one of the EU's most successful scientific institutions, policy experts warn.