Project aims to show that clean fusion power can be generated at commercial scale

A public health journal will be retracting a paper that argued for the adoption of homeopathy in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, according to the editor in chief.

We can't tackle the huge global challenges we face in isolation - scientists must be able to work together across borders.

Covid-19 could be a boon for the robotics industry, leaving companies to decide when and where humans are better than machines.

The British Academy today announces that Professor Julia Black, Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will be its 31st President, succeeding the historian Professor Sir David Cannadine.

A report on the status of women faculty at EPFL outlines common challenges faced by women professors, and more importantly, recommendations on how to move forward.

We are pleased to invite you to fill in a survey dedicated to gaining in-depth understanding of open access journals that don’t charge author-fees, often known as the “diamond model”; journals that are free to both readers and authors. In addition, we are launching a crowdsourcing effort to list diamond journals not yet covered in major databases like DOAJ. 

Volunteers line up, and labs set to work on viral strains for controlled infections

The risk of nasty side effects in the Moderna and Oxford trials should be made clear now, before it ends up as fodder for the skeptics.

cOAlition S has taken note that the ERC Scientific Council wishes to pursue their joint efforts towards Open Access in a more independent way. The European Commission, who directs the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, continues to support cOAlition S and Plan S.

EU leaders agreed on a pared-back budget of €80.9 billion for the Horizon Europe research programme, in the fifth day of a marathon summit to debate the EU's long-term budget and a post-pandemic economic recovery plan. The final figure - a big blow to research advocates -  is significantly lower than a proposes €94.4 billion put forward by the European Commission in May, as the budget for the R&D programme has been cut multiple times throughout the summit.

The reversal is intended to 'preserve equity among research communities' and protect young researchers.

As EU budget negotiations entered a fourth day in Brussels, the amount of funding that will be available for research and innovation is still unknown - but advocates mounted an online campaign to defend  it.

cOAlition S has developed a Rights Retention Strategy to give researchers supported by a cOAlition S Organisation the freedom to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, whilst remaining fully compliant with Plan S.

Taking time out to have a child should not mean derailing a research career, says Adrienne Hopkins, lead author of LERU's new paper on family leave.

University associations have renewed a call for a higher budget for EU research and innovation and for academic exchange programmes, after the latest budget draft by EU Council president Charles Michel proposed a €5 billion cut from Horizon Europe.

Universities and research funders are increasingly reconsidering the relevance and importance of researchers' contributions when assessing them for hiring, promotion or funding.