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Stronger research into policy innovation and behavioural change, new technologies to increase resource efficiency, and nature-positive food production innovation - these are three asks of European scientists by Sweden's climate minister Romina Pourmokhtari.
Former universities minister Michelle Donelan is appointed head of newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in mini-reshuffle.
Data sharing has been a success for large collaborations like CERN and LIGO. But what about small research groups with bespoke experimental setups?
Mothers in academic research and those who support them say in a report that the funding system can and should remedy gender bias in the sciences.
A new EU project is aiming to promote the role and use of scientific knowledge in policymaking in seven participating member states, after current shortcomings came under the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This article is part of a series of opinions Science|Business is publishing on the EU's strategic autonomy agenda, and its impact on global R&D. A complete report will be published and discussed at the annual Science|Business Network conference 7 February.
Conversational AI is a game-changer for science. Here's how to respond.
This article investigates higher-order rich-club phenomena in networks of collaborative research grants among institutions and their associations with research impact.
New technologies might provide more potent or broader immunity - but will have to fight for market share.
Horizon Europe is heading into its third year, and the latest statistics offer a glimpse of how the EU is spending its €95.5 billion research funding pot.
For young immigrant women like me, the pressures of early career research are even greater than for most. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.
In an effort to get its big-spending programmes working better together, the European Commission named Marc Lemaître, currently head of its regional development funding, to run its big research and innovation programme.
Surpassing 1.5 degrees of warming was never going to be the end of the world.
All papers reviewed by eLife as part of our new model will now be published as Reviewed Preprints.
Readers discuss experimentation on lab animals.
Peter Hotez says anti-science sentiments fueled by twitter are being weaponized by businessmen and politicians seeking profits and power.
This meta-analysis of 42 studies finds that learning progress has slowed during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, particularly among children from low socio-economic backgrounds and in poorer countries. Reported learning deficits were larger in maths than in reading.
The government is considering spending over 300 million USD on a new research station in Antarctica. The old Troll station is 32 years old and will be demolished.
In 2022, we saw climate change wreak havoc on the world, and as a result 2023 will be defined by a Pandora's box of climate technologies
The US government will be implementing science initiatives from recent legislation while battling over future funding.
What role did science play in managing the Covid-19 pandemic from January to December 2020? In what way did the Swiss experience differ from selected other countries? Where is there a need for action in the future?
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
A study suggesting papers and patents that change the course of science are becoming less dominant is prompting soul-searching - and lively debate about why, and what to do about it.
