The ERC has announced today the awarding of the Consolidator Grants that go to 329 top researchers across Europe.

The European Commission today launched a Horizon Prize in Social Innovation to improve the mobility of older people.

Congress has given government scientists working at U.S. defense laboratories an opportunity for a much bigger payoff—up to $500,000 per year—if their research is a commercial success.

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has made investment in research the centrepiece of his budget.

After promising a major new investment in science last year, the U.K. government is planning another significant increase in spending.

The 2018 Horizon 2020 budget will be €11.2 billion, after the European Parliament managed to fend off a half-billion-euro cut proposed by EU member state governments.

Pledge to raise country's public research funding to £12.5 billion in 2021–22.

With nudge from federal regulators, an internal investigation found big problems.

Gates to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.

Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.

NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase to seek best practices for developing and managing a data commons.

Alibaba wants to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The advisory board includes Harvard's geneticist George Church and others.

"Artificial Intelligence, genetics, blockchain: science is at the core of today's most promising breakthrough innovations", says Moedas.

One of the biggest and best studies of alcohol's effects on health is underway. But funding from the alcohol industry is already undercutting its results.

House Republican says cap on indirect costs would be unreasonable and ultimately destructive.

Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.

Federal spending on science has dropped by half in 5 years.

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