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Every year, the SNSF receives around one billion francs from the federal government. In 2019, a total of 22.9 billion Swiss francs was available for R&D in Switzerland. The country ranks seventh in terms GDP share spent on R&D.
Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. This post takes a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.
Official engagements this October have delayed Maria Leptin's move to become president of the European Research Council, by one month. Leptin will now step into the post on 1 November, leaving ERC without a president for two months. Until then, ERC's vice presidents will cover for her.
In this article the decision to collect gender data for Royal Society journals with the aim to identify and respond to potential biases in the peer review process is discussed.
This post explores how diversity plays an important role in the peer review system.
Switzerland is to draw on its science diplomacy experience to help steer the construction and governance of the South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST), the first large research infrastructure in the Western Balkans.
New music download patterns appear to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease, study finds
For women in science and engineering, careers in the academic world tend to appeal for their flexibility and potential to make a difference.
Far from being inferior, smaller universities can outstrip elite ones in research training and promoting inclusivity.
Millions of people around the world have received the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19. Now the team behind BioNTech is receiving Germany's biggest award for medicine.
The PREreview team is very excited to announce the publication of the Open Reviewer Toolkit, three guides to help with the unbiased composition and assessment of research manuscripts' review. The guides are openly available for download on Zenodo under CC-BY 4.0 license.
Switzerland has unveiled details of a funding scheme through which Horizon Europe applicants will still be able to carry on with their projects, despite the country's uncertain status in the EU research programme.
In the 100 years since Science News started reporting on it, science has offered up plenty of unexpected discoveries.
The First Time A Public School Is Number One.
Hundreds of scientists had worked on mRNA vaccines for decades before the coronavirus pandemic brought a breakthrough.
Anyone who'd rather have COVID-19 than get vaccinated is taking two gambles: that immunity will stick around, and that symptoms won't.
Tools and bones in Moroccan cave could be some of earliest evidence of the hallmark human behaviour.
This stunning visualization breaks down all the major world languages, based on their total native speakers and country of origin.
Data should be a means to knowledge, not an end in themselves.
This post argues that for academic books to be genuinely open, an emphasis should be placed on collective funding models that limit the prospect of new barriers to access being erected through the imposition of expensive book processing charges (BPCs).
Make science more reliable by placing the burden of replicability on the community, not on individual laboratories.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors today announced the winners of the 10th annual Breakthrough Prizes, awarding a total of $15.75 million to an esteemed group of laureates and early-career scientists.
This post draws on a recent analysis of different impact evaluation tools to explore how they constitute and direct conceptions of research impact.
