In recent weeks Sage has retracted batches of articles published in two journals it acquired from IOS Press in 2023.

This past July, computer scientists across the US were granted temporary relief when a federal court blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its unconstitutional policy of censorship at the border.

Letting powerful academics off the hook and punishing the people they bullied sends the message that abuse is acceptable in academia.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

This interview with Ambassador Philipp Stalder explains why Switzerland is trying to strengthen science-diplomacy links with African partners. It highlights existing Swiss-African research collaborations, and frames research cooperation as a way to build long-term trust and support foreign-policy objectives.

Universities and funding agencies should organize research around problems, reward shared achievement, and support ideas that fall between established fields.

Colette Delawalla tells European scientists to organise now in case far-right parties attempt a Trump-style crackdown.

The US is reinventing science as an instrument of national power, China has done so for years. Europe now needs a scientific contract of its own.

Questions of public trust can be addressed only through better communication and research that meets society's interests.

The challenge is not a lack of neurodivergent talent, but systems that fail to support and retain it.

Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans.

Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science.

We do not own the leading-edge AI technology we rely on for research and innovation. We rent it, mostly from US companies.

Efforts to improve research culture can make harmful systems easier to endure and harder to reform.

The proposed OMB changes to research funding threaten US science. Researchers must stand up for and share the value of science to society.

The American Physical Society (APS) provides public comments regarding the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) proposed guidance, and expresses its unequivocal opposition to this proposed rule change.

Speaking to Science|Business, an official leading the country’s scientific relations says he is “not happy” with exclusions

Research Professional News recently announced its impending closure. Adam Golberg considers what is lost when there is no-one to report the "research" news.

Europe can only deliver on its ambitions with research and innovation, proposes, among other things, establishing the free movement of knowledge as a fifth European freedom, alongside the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital.

The role of AI in peer review should be acknowledged in order to ensure practical guidance and policies that help scholars respond with consistency and confidence.

Protecting institutional autonomy in the future requires a realignment of the power and incentive structures that produce policy outcomes.

“Horizon Europe” is the framework programme through which the European Union (EU) has been advancing research and innovation since 2021. It expires in 2027, and negotiations on the successor package are in full swing. Professor Dr Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council (ERC), and Professor Dietmar Harhoff, PhD, are closely involved in this process — and are among those preparing the joint ERC and Leopoldina conference “Towards the European Fifth Freedom and Global Competition: Voices from Science” on 29 June.

Partial agreement on the next Horizon Europe sets Council on collision course with Parliament in upcoming negotiations