Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

Ireland has launched a five-year strategy to boost research and innovation. It sets out how the newly minted funder Research Ireland can shape the country’s research landscape, not just fund it.

The reframing of European research and innovation in terms of competitiveness, strategic autonomy and security carries unvoiced consequences.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) plans to stop paying to publish their papers in international free-to-read journals it regards as too expensive amid effort to grow the country’s own journals.

A randomized controlled study demonstrates that large language model-generated feedback can make reviews more informative while enhancing reviewer-author engagement. Preprint available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09737

Switzerland will host the next Global Summit on AI in Geneva in 2027. This was announced by the President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, in New Delhi at the AI Impact Summit in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

Twenty African grantmakers have formed a new alliance, bolstered by US$42 million.

Agency acknowledges young investigators are losing out as result of multiyear funding policy imposed by White House.

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. The latest report delivers a stark warning.

The European Commission is mulling over a plan to reshuffle Horizon Europe funding for 2026-27 to finance policy priorities and plug a biodiversity funding gap.

EU leaders call for urgent action on strategic technologies at industry summit, but remain divided over approach

While 62% of scientific academies report having formal gender equality policies, only 10% have dedicated budgets to implement them.

Generative AI is enabling people to swamp all manner of institutions with documents, forms and messages.

The groundbreaking inquiry follows a complaint from a Polish company that the use of AI to evaluate its EIC bid was unfair.

Geopolitical imperatives should not give the Commission the right to move funding at its discretion, Lewandowski says