An expert panel will examine the impact of a decade of policies under the previous prime minister, Stephen Harper, aimed at converting university labs into tools for industrial development and commercialization.

Agency would receive large raise for 2 years in a row after more than a decade of flat budgets

A new report from Sense About Science reveals the scale of politics before evidence.

Maria Zuber helped craft campaign to rebut attacks on NSF’s grantsmaking process

Government scraps €134 million in reductions to four research agencies

Pension fund for academics funded by Cancer Research UK invested £211m in British American Tobacco last year

Government decree takes €256 million out of research coffers this year

Plan spells out six proposed “research frontiers” and three “process” changes

The ESFRI has published its Roadmap for 2016.

Scientists are pleased there are apparently no further cuts

Agency rethinks approach to its massive biennial statistical report

HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announce the International Research Scholars Program which aims to support up to 50 outstanding early career scientists worldwide.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has found a potentially powerful tool to help it tamp down the workload created by some 48,000 grant proposals annually: It can simply eliminate deadlines.

NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.

Don’t get too excited about that successful appeal against a grant rejection.