Europe already has much of the data it needs to better predict and fight wildfires. The challenge is making this fragmented data work together.

The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.

This study assessed trends in data accessibility, compliance with Data availability statements (DAS), and the relationship between data sharing and citation impact in oceanographic research.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH's institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

Prioritising long-term strategic investment in the Arctic requires courage, but it is a choice Europe cannot afford to postpone.

Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.

A leading ocean scientist sees opportunities to expand cooperation amid efforts to hinder research
 

In recent weeks Sage has retracted batches of articles published in two journals it acquired from IOS Press in 2023.

This past July, computer scientists across the US were granted temporary relief when a federal court blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its unconstitutional policy of censorship at the border.

Letting powerful academics off the hook and punishing the people they bullied sends the message that abuse is acceptable in academia.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

This interview with Ambassador Philipp Stalder explains why Switzerland is trying to strengthen science-diplomacy links with African partners. It highlights existing Swiss-African research collaborations, and frames research cooperation as a way to build long-term trust and support foreign-policy objectives.

Universities and funding agencies should organize research around problems, reward shared achievement, and support ideas that fall between established fields.

Colette Delawalla tells European scientists to organise now in case far-right parties attempt a Trump-style crackdown.

The US is reinventing science as an instrument of national power, China has done so for years. Europe now needs a scientific contract of its own.

Questions of public trust can be addressed only through better communication and research that meets society's interests.

The challenge is not a lack of neurodivergent talent, but systems that fail to support and retain it.

Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans.

Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science.

We do not own the leading-edge AI technology we rely on for research and innovation. We rent it, mostly from US companies.

Efforts to improve research culture can make harmful systems easier to endure and harder to reform.

The proposed OMB changes to research funding threaten US science. Researchers must stand up for and share the value of science to society.