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Funders and publishers have a lot to gain from sharing and aligning peer reviews.

The humanities subjects do not benefit from the research excellence framework. They need a better system.

Launch of the ORCID funder open letter: Nine funding bodies are committed to expanding the use of ORCID in their grant applications.

The change is intended to enable researchers to access structural funds for projects reviewers say are excellent, but which don’t make the cut for Horizon Europe grants.

A study evaluating two aspects of the selection process of the top-ranked applicants to the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship program in 2007.

In 2019, innovation funding will be increasingly randomised.

Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding 'excellence' is hampering new research, says Dutch institute

The research sector is experiencing the longest delay to Australian Research Council (ARC) funding announcements in history.

Research funders impose length limits on applications for practical reasons: to discourage epic submissions, and to ease the burden on reviewers. It’s also true that concise ideas are generally stronger ideas. But sticking to these limits can often seem a difficult and frustrating task.

Debate over a new idea for stopping malaria is pitting some environmental groups against Bill Gates.

The European Commission launched today the sixth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize sheds light on the outstanding work of female entrepreneurs who have brought their ideas to market, and aims to inspire the next generation of innovators.

Mozilla Science Mini Grants are now open for applications.

Funding could help quantum technology gain commercial footholds in Europe.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn appeals to research chiefs Carlos Moedas and Jean-Eric Paquet to keep R&D programme focused on excellence, rather than even spread of winners.

Already the world's second biggest R&D spender behind the United States, China is steadily narrowing the gap, according to a government report released last week.

Many countries on continent have not repaired cuts made during financial crisis, despite economic growth

New ‘G6’ group of top French, German, Italian and Spanish institutes aims for more collaboration, and to ‘make sure politicians understand the urgency’ of science investment

Researchers warn that the country's science infrastructure is at risk of collapse if austerity measures continue.

Wellcome’s director offers a stark warning about the trust’s future in the UK.

Considering the future of research assessment, Elizabeth Gadd outlines how she believes research evaluation could be made better, fairer, and more meaningful. The resulting seven guiding principles…

US agency plans to create a central reporting system and launch training and education campaigns.

Paul Benneworth and Kate Maxwell explain why we need public funding for science that creates truly public benefits.

For first time in decades, lawmakers finish measure before new fiscal year begins.

Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. 

We need to hold each other accountable for fantasy thinking about how much science costs.

In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate the money to help students underrepresented in physics.