AI and new eligibility rules are among the possible causes behind a 60% rise in applications for entry-level European Research Council grants

Parliament’s Horizon Europe negotiators have settled their differences but details on their compromise remain scarce.

The European Commission plans to develop an EU polar research hub to strengthen coordination and improve the alignment between science and policy.

Over 1,000 representatives from the private sector, philanthropy, science, diplomacy and politics discussed the implications of future scientific and technological breakthroughs.

Funding is becoming more concentrated, with increasingly large grants going to fewer projects.

MEPs call the agreement “the first important milestone” in the negotiations, with a committee vote scheduled for November 10.

The agency says the money will be invested in Trump-aligned initiatives.

Meaningful work, flexibility and job security all matter more than salaries do, Nature's job satisfaction survey shows.

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

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.

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 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.

As shortcomings of the agents become apparent, researchers are proposing strategies to help them improve their outputs.

The additional funding for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions comes amid record-low success rates.

Additional funding will cover biodiversity and “bridging” grants to next EU research programme amid plummeting success rates

Although supportive of dual-use research in Horizon Europe, Nordic universities say more detail is needed on definitions

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.

The Swiss government has provided just under CHF2 million in funding for research into the provenance of cultural artefacts from colonial and archaeological contexts, as well as from the field of Nazi-looted art.

Current assessment systems rely heavily on bibliometric indicators such as publication counts, co-authorship, and citation metrics, which do not reliably reflect research quality or scientific rigor.

Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.