The new president of the European Research Council (ERC) wants to see the budget doubled to increase its ability to fund excellent science and says the agency must remain independent.

Minister 'quite concerned' about delay to finalising UK's participation in €80bn Horizon Europe scheme

The mystery of COVID's origins has reignited a contentious debate about potentially risky studies and the fuzzy terminology that describes them.

Cutting-edge microscopy techniques are allowing researchers to spy on the innards of cells in all their crowded glory.

Kids under 12 years generally can't get a COVID vaccine. US authorities will rule on emergency approval for the BioNTech-Pfizer jab for 5- to 11-year-olds.

Make language inclusive and agree on your aims in advance.

Saturn-sized planet candidate has been identified in Whirlpool Galaxy 28m light years away

Results from some of the innovative EU-funded research that help us to better understand the major political issues of the day and provide recommendations for policymakers, citizens and other organisations to better respond to the threats facing European democracy.

Bill Cash says UK still not being made full member of Horizon Europe science programme linked to dispute over NI protocol

Behind the struggle to stop governments propping up the coal, oil and gas industries.

To combat COVID and future pandemics, governments need to heed the lessons of social interventions and not just the technological ones.

Study shows collaboration between civil society and academia achieving progress toward the goals of the UN Ocean Decade

Rather than causing a backlash, vaccine mandates promote vaccination uptake, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania.

The successor to Francis Collins will need to be steadfast, nimble and creative in how they run the world's largest biomedical research agency at a pivotal time.

The world's youth movements are following the science of climate change. It's high time that world leaders did, too.

The EU has wrapped up Horizon Europe negotiations with Israel and hopes to sign it up as an associated country before the end of the year, despite pressure from pro-Palestinian academics and objections in Brussels to the country's settlement policies. While the association was expected, the breakthrough comes as uncertainty clouds the status of the UK and Switzerland, two other major potential partners of the research framework.

Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.

As the world marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, DW examines the rising rates of breast cancer in Nigeria, Uganda and Malawi. Lifesaving information is often scarce, and many patients lack access to adequate treatment.

The scholar-led.network is an alliance of Open Access stakeholders that was constituted at the beginning of 2021 as a “digital focus group” in the context of the project “open-access.network”.

The OECD has published a study that makes nine recommendations to improve the situation of academic careers.

A decrease in Earth's reflectance shows our planet is absorbing more solar radiation, but it's not clear if the trend will last.

NASA's Lucy is the first spacecraft to head to the two giant clumps of space rocks that tag along in Jupiter's orbit.

Experts warn findings do not prove cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce death rates.

The Board of Regents has given its universities the power to fire tenured professors without faculty input. Now some fear that academic freedom is threatened, too.

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Dozens of researchers tell Nature they have received death threats, or threats of physical or sexual violence.

Are social media bad for your mental health?

A Facebook robot that wraps fiber-optic cables around power lines could help bridge the digital divide by expanding internet access.

Study investigates the importance of tasks associated with data sharing, and researchers’ satisfaction with their ability to complete these tasks.

Concerns about a "new Cold War" over science and technology are a major reason behind the creation of a new think tank that looks out for future advances and development.