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Efforts to advance towards a more sustainable world focus heavily on a limited set of actions and actors while overlooking key strategies and sectors needed to address the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, according to a new study.
According to data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the share of US basic and applied research funded by the federal government dropped from nearly 48% in 2009 to just over 34% in 2023. As that decline is likely to continue, some state governments are responding by boosting their research spending.
After a year of Trump, a former US diplomat suggests what the EU can do to bring American science back from the brink
"Enshittification" isn’t just confined to the online world. In fact, it’s now visible in academic publishing and occurs in five stages. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say.
It's getting harder for scientists from around the world to work together. Researchers must find ways to adapt.
For a country often celebrated for its composers, digital statecraft and quietly radical governance, Estonia has now achieved something even more improbable; according to a new analysis of global citation data, this nation of 1.3 million has become the world’s third most scientifically wealthy country.
A new Trump administration plan to expand the use of artificial intelligence in US science could boost research productivity. But, it also highlights a need for more global cooperation in AI development.
The Guardian's View on Animal Testing: New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. This isn't just morally right, it could have scientific and economic benefits too
While Open Science infrastructures are used a lot, their funding is precarious. TSOSI is a project that aims to improve this situation by making financial support for open infrastructure more visible.
The African Union Commission (AUC) has launched a decisive effort to bridge the gap between scientific research and policy action, inaugurating the first-ever Symposium of the Africa Science and Technology Advisory Group on Disaster Risk Reduction in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
A lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among funded projects as well as by lower estimated costs.
Some scientists hope animal work at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre can continue despite vote by Dutch Parliament to end the studies
This study contributes to a growing understanding of individual- and institution-level factors that may influence academic researcher engagement with research coproduction.
The way we think about the impact of university research, according to one Arizona State University leader, needs urgent and fundamental change.
