Now is not the time to undermine positive moves over the future of EU-UK science collaboration.

Former universities minister Michelle Donelan is appointed head of newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in mini-reshuffle.

A network of academics are attempting to use a relatively new type of Horizon Europe funding to create grant calls open to both UK and EU applicants while the UK is not associated to Horizon Europe.

 Of 174 UK-based ERC grant winners 23, or around one in eight, have decided to relocate, while only four of 66 researchers based in Switzerland did so.

Minister Freeman announces new global research fund to deepen collaboration between the UK and international R&D powers like Japan.

Data show that the representation of scientists from marginalized ethnicities dwindles at each stage of UK academia.

Researchers relieved by decision to reaffirm previous spending commitments.

The EU moved to exclude the UK from Horizon Europe calls on sensitive quantum projects in October due to doubts over the country's willingness to provide EU researchers with reciprocal access to UK programmes and to comply with intellectual property rules. The move reverses the EU's previous decision to accept UK participation in more mature quantum projects with high 'technology readiness levels'.

Political tensions mean both nations have been shut out of the EU's prestigious Horizon programme.

George Freeman has been reappointed as UK science minister four months after he resigned from the post when former prime minister Boris Johnson lost power. Jan Palmowski, secretary general at The Guild of European Research Intensive universities welcomed the news, telling Science|Business, Freeman knows the science sector and "gets the importance of Europe."

Nusrat Ghani faces pressing issues such as the future of funding for Britain's researchers.

The number of cabinet committees has been slimmed down from 20 to just six, with the National Science and Technology Council among those abolished.

Scheme gets under way as data suggests Environment Agency's own monitoring leaves rivers unprotected

Researchers examined Covid-19 response and recommended the nation separates science advice from government

The UK government, raising the political heat over Brexit, began legal proceedings against the European Union for blocking its membership in the €95.5 billion research programme, Horizon Europe.

British foreign secretary triggers formal dispute proceedings with Brussels over British access to EU science programs.

As action on climate change becomes ever more urgent, it requires ever greater public action. The next stage of the transition to net-zero emissions demands changes to the vehicles we drive, the way we heat our homes and our choices as consumers. 

The European Commission has rejected calls from research leaders on both sides of the English Channel for it to put politics aside and allow Switzerland and the UK to join the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.