ETH Zurich at position 10, EPFL at position 12.

The NIH abandons its controversial plan to cap grants to big lab and it creates a new fund for younger scientists.

Approach allows reviewers to focus on the stuff they know best, speeds up process.

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs.

House spending panel backs agency but offers no promises

NIH plans to set up a separate fund for early- to mid-career investigators.

An international league of scientists is kicking off the decades-long process of developing the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

Why are science and maths teachers more likely to leave the profession?

With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs

Long-time physician-scientist retains job he has held since 2009.

NSF’s Directorate of Biological Sciences just announced that they are getting rid of the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) program.

Analysis of THE data and latest autonomy scores for Europe suggests ability to hire best staff drives research strength

Ahead of his address at Going Global 2017, Phil Baty looks at the relationship between the world’s best universities and their place in the world

Dr. Francis Collins, a holdover from the Obama administration, will remain director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced.

Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.

Academic journals don’t select the research they publish on scientific rigour alone. So why aren’t academics taking to the streets about this?

The rules fail to make data sharing mandatory for papers to be published, which raises the prospect that some authors might decide to ignore the hint.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

A group of EU government agencies, law enforcement groups and academic researchers are partnering on a new digital currency surveillance project.

The Research Council of Norway is announcing a record-high amount of funding for Innovation Projects for the Industrial Sector.

Free movement and ECJ jurisdiction seen as potential stumbling blocks at Russell Group's meeting with MEPs

Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials