Pilot award strategy designed to enhance funding stability to researchers.

The former prime minister has been confirmed as the new president of Alzheimer's Research UK.

In Rio de Janeiro state, grants go unpaid as government raids science agency coffers.

The 2017 Innovative Seed Grant Program is accepting proposals for interdisciplinary ventures on the CU Boulder campus, due Feb. 12. The program has set aside $1 million to fund grants of up to $50,000 each.

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Global partnership launched in Davos to prevent epidemics with new vaccines.

Shift in focus comes in response to a changing world order and the threat of terrorism.

As of January 2017, the Wellcome Trust will permit researchers to cite preprints, or pre-peer reviewed manuscripts, in their grant applications and end-of-grant review reports.

Completion of department and agency public access plans means the public will have greater access to publications and data resulting from Federally-funded research.

The MRC welcomes the inclusion of preprints in publication lists contained within grants and Fellowship applications.

Mick Mulvaney suggested Zika science is uncertain, so we shouldn’t bother to fund it.

Science policy is slowly waking up to the realisation that the value of science may lie in people and places rather than papers and patents.

Outcome: Indicative statistics.

If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.

Proposal would keep funding flat for most research agencies, but cuts could come early next year.

Key recommendation of Stern review is adopted to help reduce workload for institutions

Prime minister will unveil strategy to boost technology industry in effort to reach out to sceptical business leaders.

Cap at current spending levels could spell 'end of science in Brazil', researchers say.