Every year, the SNSF receives around one billion francs from the federal government. In 2019, a total of 22.9 billion Swiss francs was available for R&D in Switzerland. The country ranks seventh in terms GDP share spent on R&D.

For women in science and engineering, careers in the academic world tend to appeal for their flexibility and potential to make a difference. 

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors today announced the winners of the 10th annual Breakthrough Prizes, awarding a total of $15.75 million to an esteemed group of laureates and early-career scientists.

The space race is heating up, but many legal issues are still open to debate.

These are my remarks from yesterday's UK Student Accommodation Forum on demand for higher education in 2021/22 and on, hosted by Unipol. The event also saw the launch of an excellent new paper on International Students and Factors Affecting Accommodation in the UK. When it comes to demand from home students, the naysayers were wrong in 2020 and […]

I pride myself on coming from a place of “yes.” So it was uncharacteristic that, when my department head asked me to share my experiences of homophobia at a recent virtual diversity town hall for faculty, my first reaction was to decline.

With today's existing translation tools to overcome language barriers, global collaboration should not be a major feat for researchers. However, through the COVID-19 pandemic, articles published in Chinese journals focusing on important aspects of the disease were never cited by English journals.

Researchers have grown mini brains with light-sensitive eye structures that could lead to breakthrough treatments for vision disorders.

The largest-ever independent gathering of interest groups, thought-leaders, science advisors to governments and global institutions, researchers, academics, communicators and diplomats is taking place in Montreal and online.

The vaccines work very well, but current public-health communications may be understating the frequency of infections among the vaccinated.

The 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey results provides a comprehensive picture of the challenges and achievements in Open Science at Europe’s universities.

Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released today. Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion—such as continued sea level rise—are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years.

This briefing examines the contribution of EU staff and students to higher education and research throughout the UK and across disciplines and highlights the challenges associated with replacing the Erasmus+ programme.

Transitional measures for researchers are envisaged following Switzerland's non-association to Horizon Europe.

Astronomers have detected the first evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede.