The resignation of the Science Adviser likely won’t doom president’s science initiatives, argue science policy observers

As the first year of Horizon Europe draws to a close, Science|Business gathered feedback from an online survey and meetings with its member organisations resulting in recommendations on how to make the next six years of Horizon Europe even better.

Today, researchers spend nearly half their time on paperwork and administrative tasks, rather than research.

Public money contributes to the publication of around 2.5 million papers in scientific journals each year - yet as taxpayers most of us have access to just a fraction of that output.

Outreach activities helped this postdoc grow and find satisfaction in her work as a scientist

Too many national leaders get good guidance yet make poor decisions.

Science benefits when junior scientists sign up as reviewers. It's also good for their careers.

Tiny steps towards net zero are being undermined by new fossil fuel projects. An election year offers the chance to hold our politicians to account.

Little work has yet been done on exploring how more ambitious open science principles might be deployed across both the qualitative and quantitative social science disciplines.

Universities should reward more than research outputs.

Researchers are creating grass-roots collaborative networks to tackle difficult questions in primate studies and more, but they need funding and other support.

Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.

Obscure, generations-old theorems have been transformative in tech, and there are still plenty out there to be used, says maths professor David Sumpter

The Doomsday Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.

In the face of complacency about the threat of global warming, three professors have suggested that climate scientists should stop doing climate science. It's a controversial stance.

Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.

The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding.

'Focused research organizations' can take on mid-scale projects that don't get tackled by academia, venture capitalists or government labs.

How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.

The role they play in evaluations for graduate school admissions, fellowships and jobs can be baffling.

From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say.

Pushing the ARC to focus on commercialisation neglects the complex interdependency between basic and applied research, says Duncan Ivison.

Members of the OCLC Research Team discuss their project examining changes to library work, collections, and engagement experiences and how they will lead to the future of libraries.

COP26 energized the global effort to halt global warming. Research is now crucial to monitoring progress and creating solutions.

What the Manhattan Project's scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer and his physicist-colleagues went through after the war holds lessons for us today, hoping for the end of our own generation's global crisis.

Emotions enhance our process of reasoning and aid decision-making, says the author and physicist Leonard Mlodinow

To speed research, express conclusions as testable statements, and incorporate testing into training.

The impact on careers of a lingering pandemic and industrial unrest were among the challenges faced by working scientists in the past 12 months

Omicron, Moon missions and particle physics are among the themes set to shape research in the coming year.

People are wising up to Boris Johnson and choosing to listen to unelected experts over those paid to make bad decisions.