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Nearly half of all young Canadian health researchers say they are seriously considering leaving the country because of lack of financial support, according to an informal survey that comes as the federal government is signalling more support for basic science and for young scientists.
Historic win by Google DeepMind's Go-playing program has South Korean government playing catch-up on artificial intelligence.
A report produced by Digital Science, together with an international collaboration of leading higher education professionals and policy experts who give their views on the global impact agenda in research policy and discuss what evidence of impact is useful to them.
Survey finds that 24% of research projects get new titles, up from 10% in 2012
It is now easier to obtain a clear and transparent overview of the thousands of scientific research projects funded by the SNSF. Its P3 database has been redesigned to display information interactively.
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
A proposal for a more peer review based funding of Swedish research prepared by the Swedish Research Council has been rejected by a majority of Swedish universities.
The latest Federal Scientific Activities report indicates that Canada's federal government expenditures on science and technology for 2013/2014 will decline 3.3 per cent from the previous year.
Rescuers working on the front lines of massive marine mammal die-offs on both U.S. coasts have been dealt a hard blow during an already difficult year. On Tuesday, dozens of rescue centers learned they wouldn't be getting any federal financial help for the next year.
A new joint survey out today found that nearly half (46%) of 3,165 scientists in the United States reported they've laid off scientists due to sequester budget cuts or they will have to lay off scientists. Also, more than 54% or those surveyed know a colleague who has lost his or her job or expects to soon.
Laura Niedernhofer is counting her pennies. The mid-career molecular biologist moved last year to the Scripps Research Institute's campus in Jupiter, Florida - a risky decision that saw her building a new laboratory group at a time when the US government was cutting its support for science.
Two years after House Republicans threatened not to raise the government's debt ceiling, the full brunt of that once-unthinkable offense is now hitting the NIH. As Annie Lowrey reported in The Times this morning, 2013 has been the "darkest ever" year for the agency, because the budget cuts demanded by Republicans are taking a significant toll on research into medical cures.
Science is a big winner in Japan's 2014 budget, with the education ministry requesting $12 billion for S&T, a 20% increase over the current year's funding. Biomedical research is about to take off thanks to plans to create a Japanese version of the NIH.
The main factors determining the success of crowdfunding campaigns, and a comparison with the use of traditional funding sources.
The amount of government funding for science and technology in Canada is expected to decline for another year.
The World Academic Summit Innovation Index finds that university scientific researchers from many Asian nations are attracting substantially more industry funding per researcher than their American counterparts.
