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

Bill Gates and the European Commission have launched a €100 million investment fund designed to bring radical clean energy technologies more quickly to market in order to promote energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

British Heart Foundation award is one of the largest single grants in medical research.

Alzheimer’s disease will receive 2.3 billion USD, the biggest chunk of change devoted to one of the NIH’s various interests.

Data shows 90% of engineering and physical sciences funding in UK goes to male-led projects

Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative's approach to accelerating science and curing disease.

The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Granting bodies have to do more to stop corporate money from distorting science, says Linda Bauld.

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

I want to see whether the wisdom of crowds does a better job than conventional grant review at supporting research, says Johan Bollen.

Today we're announcing a GBP250m not-for-profit fund. Director Jeremy Farrar explains how the new Wellcome Leap Fund will accelerate discovery and innovation.

Under the current slate of legislation, moderate increases would allow agency research dollars to continue their recent growth.

Creeping marketization has created perverse incentives for researchers - threatening the wholesale corruption of science itself.

Swiss participation in some of the EU’s largest and most prestigious funding programmes is being threatened by rules proposed for 2021-27.

Latest statements from research, industry or other organisations to the European Commission’s Horizon Europe proposal.