U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.

The ERC has announced today the awarding of the Consolidator Grants that go to 329 top researchers across Europe.

Long-awaited industrial strategy pins hopes on commercial gains from research.

The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.

"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman

When fellow scientists critiqued Mark Jacobson, he took their dispute to court.

Springer Nature is considering a potential 4-5 billion euro stock market listing next year.

When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.

European Commission renews glyphosate license despite debate on cancer risk.

Experiences of black female academics. A new book explores ther career trajectories.

The UK government’s long-awaited industrial strategy has arrived. It brings with it a fund to support interdisciplinary research and funding boosts for both the research councils and quality-related research funding.

From cancer advances to the cosmos, what's your top choice?

European leaders and the European Commission have backed proposals to step up higher education mobility and exchanges and create a network of European universities with integrated study programmes and curricula that enable students to study abroad.

A drop in the total number of students from both the UK and the European Union entering higher education this year.

Highlighting the universities that are leading across mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology and environmental sciences subjects.

The European Commission today launched a Horizon Prize in Social Innovation to improve the mobility of older people.

After several high surplus years, a relatively small 2016 deficit will not sink PLOS.

Survey suggests European scholars are resistant to UK continuing to enjoy full participation in programmes such as Horizon 2020

Letter from Nobel prizewinners denounces plight of Ahmadreza Djalali.

Congress has given government scientists working at U.S. defense laboratories an opportunity for a much bigger payoff—up to $500,000 per year—if their research is a commercial success.

People with doctorates who go on to work in universities are less happy on average than those working elsewhere, a large-scale European survey has found.

Pour some sugar (science) on meeeee.

7 out of the top 10 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2018 are in the east-Asian nation.

'Free science'/pirate site operator 'working on solving DNS issue'

A new movement calls for tech investors to back more start-ups led by women and people from ethnic minorities.

A US Research Integrity Advisory Board is long overdue. Such a leadership body would mitigate bad practices and strengthen good research.

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has made investment in research the centrepiece of his budget.

With the revision to the Copyright Act, the Federal Council wants to strengthen the rights and interests of creative artists and the cultural industries by taking a resolute approach to pirated online content.

London’s loss, as a result of Brexit vote, is lamented by U.K. researchers

After promising a major new investment in science last year, the U.K. government is planning another significant increase in spending.