Framework 9 should be opened up to countries beyond Europe’s neighbours so that the EU can benefit more from global talent, a group of insiders has said.

Influential report suggests simpler, more citizen-friendly system for post-2020 EU research funding.

Fear of investing in innovation is preventing promising start-ups from reaching their full potential and that’s preventing growth across Europe, a conference on the future of EU research funding heard.

Don’t mention the B word: the first major reform of R&D funding since 1965 aims to make the UK the “go-to place” for science.

We have heard a lot of discussion in the U.S. recently in favor of government support for basic research but against support of applied research.

Bilateral partnership may provide new blueprint for EU east-west collaboration.

Heavy investment and low cost of living is powering a meteoric rise.

Statistical study of how names are geographically distributed suggests fewer professors are hiring relatives after 2010 clampdown.

The ‘trainee’ designation has broad implications, noted speakers at the Future of Biomedical Graduate and Postdoctoral Training meeting earlier this month.

The proportion of researchers who only conducted fundamental research collapsed, declining from 24% to 1.6% between 2006 and 2015.

Berlin Universities demand fair prices and free access to information.

Crispr inventor Jennifer Doudna talks about discovering the gene-editing tool, the split with her collaborator and the complex ethics of genetic manipulation.

Fed up with the relentless pressure to produce reams of jazzed-up findings, a group of junior researchers at the University of Cambridge are fighting back with a campaign called Bullied into Bad Science.

Musicians and moviemakers are not the only ones to suffer from internet piracy.