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New International Research and Innovation Strategy launched to ensure the UK remains a global leader in science.

A new momentum is emerging in the dissemination of scientific knowledge worldwide.  The GLOALL carries a vision to promote the development of multilingual scholarly communication standards, products and services.

Why Germany is becoming a career destination for many researchers.

Today, CERN welcomes Serbia as its 23rd Member State, following receipt of formal notification from UNESCO that Serbia has acceded to the CERN Convention.

The Swiss Programme for International Research by Scientific Investigation Teams promotes team-oriented cross-border research.

International University of Sarajevo (IUS) is the only university in the West Balkans that created and is implementing a Gender Equality Plan in higher education.

Alyson Fox, the Director of Grants at Wellcome, explains why they're changing their policy on transferring grants to ensure research can thrive in the UK, EU and beyond.

Ten people who mattered in science in 2018. Picks include a rogue gene-editor, a wunderkind physicist and a DNA detective who helped catch a serial killer.

Graduate students from Africa could benefit from such efforts, but it is not clear who will pay for them.

Debate over a new idea for stopping malaria is pitting some environmental groups against Bill Gates.

On Tuesday, eight new science-credentialed candidates were elected: one senator and seven members of the House.

A letter was sent to UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid MP expressing ‘grave concern about the current visa application process for international academics and scholars to visit the UK for academic conferences’.

'Most highly cited' criterion is not the most appropriate.

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.

The campaign may have increased misperceptions that the science on the safety of vaccines isn’t settled - as is the case - but rather subject to debate.

Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.

Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.

Foreign faculty in Japan are less productive than their local counterparts on many measures, but better connected to global collaborations.

Funders Jean Lebel and Robert McLean describe a new tool for judging the value and validity of science that attempts to improve lives.​

Overshadowed by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), another frightening virus is on the loose in that vast, chaotic country: polio. Public health experts have worked for months to stamp out the virus, but it keeps spreading.

Trump puts tariffs on Chinese technology and China retaliates with taxes on US chemicals.

Many of history's greatest scientists were also refugees. These are their stories.

Biochemist Juliet Gerrard will advise the government on key science issues when she takes up the position next month.

From a failed coup in Turkey, to prolonged financial crises in Greece and Spain, researchers in the region are struggling to keep up. 

'Devil in the details' when US and European researchers try to work together under Horizon 2020.  When it comes to US-European relations, nothing is simple these days.

International research collaborations could end in wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision.

Nobel-prize data suggest the productivity of American science has fallen.

EU research ministers will meet at the end of the month to debate how the EU’s next R&D programme, Horizon Europe, can help address the bloc’s societal and economic challenges.