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Viewpoint: Why Europe Must Invest in Research Infrastructures Now

Viewpoint: Why Europe Must Invest in Research Infrastructures Now

As we move further into the 21st century, the importance of scientific research and technological innovation is becoming ever more apparent. Our ability to address critical challenges - from climate change to global health threats - depends on the strength and quality of our research and development efforts as enablers of innovation.

Risk-sensitive Innovation: Leveraging Interactions Between Technologies to Navigate Technology Risks

Risk-sensitive Innovation: Leveraging Interactions Between Technologies to Navigate Technology Risks

Risk-sensitive innovation (RSI) leverages interactions between technologies to reduce specific risks across a technology portfolio. To be of practical use, RSI requires the ability to anticipate or identify impacts and intervene in the relative timing of technological advancements.

Guidelines on Lab-grown Embryo Models Are Strong Enough to Meet Ethical Standards - and Will Build Trust in Science

Guidelines on Lab-grown Embryo Models Are Strong Enough to Meet Ethical Standards - and Will Build Trust in Science

The UK code of practice for researchers working with stem-cell-based embryo models is designed to both reassure the public and provide valuable guidance to researchers.

Effort to 'Trump-proof' US Science Grows, but Will It Succeed?

Effort to 'Trump-proof' US Science Grows, but Will It Succeed?

Unions are joining the Biden administration's campaign to promote scientific integrity and protect government scientists from political interference.

So You Got a Null Result. Will Anyone Publish It?

So You Got a Null Result. Will Anyone Publish It?

Researchers have tried a bunch of strategies to get more negative results into the literature. Nature asks whether they are working.

Inside Germany's Sprind Innovation Agency, the Anti-Horizon Europe

Inside Germany's Sprind Innovation Agency, the Anti-Horizon Europe

About a 15-minute walk from Leipzig's main train station, past office blocks, hardware stores and garden centres, sits a former railway logistics building near the end of a dilapidated road in a warren of tired-looking warehouses. As you approach, there's little to suggest that it contains Germany's great hope for re-invigorating its economy.

What Kamala Harris's Historic Bid for the US Presidency Means for Science

What Kamala Harris's Historic Bid for the US Presidency Means for Science

The daughter of a scientist and a supporter of diversity in STEM, Harris as a potential candidate has stirred optimism among scientists.

A Lack of Scientific Diplomacy Leaves Canada at a Disadvantage on the World Stage

A Lack of Scientific Diplomacy Leaves Canada at a Disadvantage on the World Stage

Global Affairs Canada could help the country enhance its soft power by embedding scientific collaboration in existing cultural diplomacy.

In a first, botanists vote to remove offensive plant names from hundreds of species

In a first, botanists vote to remove offensive plant names from hundreds of species

An international body has voted to make the change and to further consider the ethics of scientific names

ChatGPT for Science: How to Talk to Your Data

ChatGPT for Science: How to Talk to Your Data

Companies are using artificial intelligence tools to help scientists to query their data without the need for programming skills.

Von Der Leyen Vows to Increase EU Research Spending in New Term

Von Der Leyen Vows to Increase EU Research Spending in New Term

Ursula von der Leyen promised to put research and innovation "at the centre of our economy" as she laid out her plans for the next five years, before the European Parliament voted to confirm her second term as president of the European Commission. A total of 401 MEPs voted in favour of von der Leyen's re-election this afternoon, and 284 voted against, making for a more comfortable majority than her first vote in 2019.

Calls for Evidence That Singapore Meets Horizon Democracy Criteria

Calls for Evidence That Singapore Meets Horizon Democracy Criteria

A leading MEP and human rights organisations want the European Commission to explain how it gave Singapore a clean enough bill of health on democracy and human rights to join the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.

Making AI More Open Could Accelerate Research and Tech Transfer

Making AI More Open Could Accelerate Research and Tech Transfer

Combining artificial Intelligence (AI) and open science can accelerate scientific discovery, redefine the boundaries of scientific research and democratise access to knowledge.

Partisan Politics and Perceptions of Immorality

Partisan Politics and Perceptions of Immorality

Democrats and Republicans overestimate the percentage of people in the opposing party who approve of widely agreed-upon moral wrongs, such as theft or animal abuse, according to a study. According to the authors, correcting the basic morality bias is an effective approach to combat political dehumanization.

Students Seek Bigger Role in European Education Area

Students Seek Bigger Role in European Education Area

European Students’ Union wants direct participation embedded in governance structures of EU education initiatives