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

From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve.

With universities relying on disclosure models and deficit framing to address awarding gaps, racism and ableism aren't distortions of the system - they're built into it. 

Ten years after Brexit, the UK must decide how to engage with the EU’s next research programme (FP10, starting 2028) – and whether full association makes sense.

A proposed overhaul of US federal grant rules has been debated mainly as a fight over political control of science. But, Rob Johnson argues, it would also reshape how publicly funded research is communicated and shared across borders, with consequences far beyond the United States.

Rather than haphazardly using artificial intelligence for research, scientists and decisionmakers should take a deliberative approach.

Borys Budka says Horizon Europe evaluation criteria should reward scientific merit, not access to grant writing infrastructure.

Sayasat Nurbek tells Science|Business why he thinks the EU is missing a trick in its collaboration with Kazakhstan

New proposal quietly published last week would amount to ‘devastating blow’ for science, experts warn.

The scientific enterprise must be willing to reflect on and dramatically overhaul its processes if they do not work.

In penning their national AI strategies governments are not only deciding how to regulate AI. They are also defining what AI should deliver, from economic growth to public-sector transformation. 

If hiring organizations must ask for references, they should do so closer to the end of the process.