Scientists Wonder: Is my AI Stealing my Ideas?
Researchers are using AI as a sounding board throughout their work. But concerns are growing that companies may present users’ ideas as those of their models
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Wha's the Secret Sauce for Happy Scientists at Work? These Eight Countries Offer Some Clues
Wha's the Secret Sauce for Happy Scientists at Work? These Eight Countries Offer Some Clues
Meaningful work, flexibility and job security all matter more than salaries do, Nature's job satisfaction survey shows.
Public Controversies Cannot Be Settled by "following the Evidence"
A close examination of three medical controversies shows how evidence, rather than resolving them, only takes effect when placed within instrumental narratives.
China's Extraordinary Rise in Science and How It Will Change the World
China's Extraordinary Rise in Science and How It Will Change the World
The nation is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power.
What Does a PhD Pay? Data Reveal Huge Gaps Across Europe
What Does a PhD Pay? Data Reveal Huge Gaps Across Europe
Earnings come in a combination of scholarships and salaries and vary widely between countries, an analysis by international federation Eurodoc reveals.
Between Google Scholar and ChatGPT: How Students Conduct Research in 2026
A new ZBW study involving 908 economics and business students examines how literature search is changing, where students encounter difficulties, and what this means for information literacy teaching in libraries.
Did an AI or a Human Write That Paper? New Detector Decides by Examining Its Ideas
Did an AI or a Human Write That Paper? New Detector Decides by Examining Its Ideas
Algorithm looks for clues about a paper's origin that text-based detectors miss.
Viewpoint: The Grant System Funds the Ability to Apply for Grants
A start-up founder calls out inherent flaws in grant evaluation systems, which stifle innovation.
Robot Pen Pals: a Systematic Analysis of Recent Trends in Scientific Correspondence
Robot Pen Pals: a Systematic Analysis of Recent Trends in Scientific Correspondence
This study identifies unusual growth in scientific correspondence after the widespread adoption of generative AI and suggests that AI may be contributing to publication inflation in a format that is citable, lightly regulated and often not peer reviewed.
How to Mobilize the Agile Science Needed in a Crisis
Two reports highlight the changes needed in academia to facilitate the fast, collaborative, responsive and inclusive research that aids global decision makers.
Will AI Scoop Your Science? Some Researchers See a Gloomy Future
Will AI Scoop Your Science? Some Researchers See a Gloomy Future
Scientists worry that increasingly capable large language models will beat them to discoveries.
Universities Measure Almost Everything - Except Leadership
Universities Measure Almost Everything - Except Leadership
Research leadership is often measured through proxies, could narrative approaches create a clearer picture of what good academic leadership is like in practice?
Academic Freedom Does Not Require Funder Neutrality
Do funding priorities restrict academic freedom? Or can setting clear boundaries between funder problems & the answers academia can provide be productive?
Research Integrity in Scholarly Communications - SSP Pulse Check Report
Research Integrity in Scholarly Communications - SSP Pulse Check Report
The latest Pulse Check Poll explored how organizations across the scholarly publishing ecosystem are responding to today’s research integrity challenges.
Why sound, strong science alone isn’t enough in pandemic preparedness
Why sound, strong science alone isn’t enough in pandemic preparedness
Comparable data are key to protecting the world from the next epidemic, says bioengineer Polina Brangel.
Open Science is Compatible with Research Security, Says Canada’s Chief Science Advisor
Open Science is Compatible with Research Security, Says Canada’s Chief Science Advisor
Open science is “not incompatible” with research security and science leaders and policymakers should “demystify” the false dichotomy between the two, according to Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor.
EU Governments to Debate a 19-Partnership Horizon Europe Portfolio
EU Governments to Debate a 19-Partnership Horizon Europe Portfolio
EU governments are set to have a strategic discussion on the next set of Horizon Europe partnerships with new initiatives on railways, space technologies, and climate and water resilience.
MSCA research career scheme gets €210M funding boost
The additional funding for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions comes amid record-low success rates.
If Research Security Feels Like Bureaucracy, We Are Making the Wrong Case
If Research Security Feels Like Bureaucracy, We Are Making the Wrong Case
For research security to be relevant it must connect to the everyday issues researchers face, rather than be another exercise in institutional compliance.
Science on the Political Stage: Analysing Representations of Science in Austrian Parliamentary Debates
Universities, Science, and Politics
The crisis of universities is not primarily due to politicization but to issues about whom universities serve and how they can serve them better against a backdrop of inequality, political polarization, and public mistrust.
Rising Numbers of Asian and African PhD Students Choose to Study in China
Rising Numbers of Asian and African PhD Students Choose to Study in China
International students explain the advantages and challenges that come with pursuing a doctoral degree in China.
Optogenetics Wins the Nobel - One Neuroscience Breakthrough in a Line of Technological Innovations Helping Scientists Map and Control the Brain
Optogenetics Wins the Nobel - One Neuroscience Breakthrough in a Line of Technological Innovations Helping Scientists Map and Control the Brain
Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it. Optogenetics may lead to a new era of medical treatment.
Open Science and Equity: Does Openness Alone Lead to Fairness?
Open Science and Equity: Does Openness Alone Lead to Fairness?
New report finds openness alone cannot ensure fairness, calling for equitable infrastructure, inclusive peer review and sustainable investment.
Why Real Intelligence is Something More Than Optimisation
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more.
Horizon Europe 2027 Plans Updated With €507M in New Calls
Additional funding will cover biodiversity and “bridging” grants to next EU research programme amid plummeting success rates
Dual-use Restrictions Risk Holding Back Research, Nordic Universities Say
PLOS and Chinese Academy of Sciences join forces on open science programme
The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSL, CAS) and PLOS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the Open for Science 10 (OS10) programme.
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