ERC has announced a decrease in proposals submitted to the 2014.

The UK and other European countries are underinvesting in research and development, according to a report from the European Commission.

The Research Council of Norway is introducing a new, five-year funding scheme that will cover a significant share of the costs incurred by research institutions for publication in open access journals.

Millions of patient records were sold to insurance firms who used it to set their critical illness premiums in a series of 'unacceptable lapses', an independent review finds.

Japan is still the number one nation but the balance of power is shifting as Beijing increases research funding

For the EU commission, there is no legal way to restart science funding unless Switzerland extends freedom of movement to Croatia.

Members of the US National Academy of Sciences have long enjoyed a privileged path to publication in PNAS. Meet the scientists who use it most heavily.

A new study shows universities pay more or less for academic journal bundles than would be expected based simply on size or number of Ph.D.s granted.

A final version of NIH document presents an estimate of the money needed.

The NIH is working on multiple fronts to get to the bottom of unexplained racial disparities in R01 grant funding and to maximize fairness in NIH peer review.

Academic funding agencies should support research in unfashionable fields; a letter to David Cameron.

Mit Walter Gehring ist einer der letzten grossen, umfassend gebildeten Biologen von uns gegangen.

Nature announced the launch of its new journal: Scientific Data.

Signal of gravitational waves was too weak to be significant, studies suggest.

Neues Förderungsprogramm ermöglicht Nachwuchsforschenden in der Medizin, ihre Arbeit in der Klinik zu reduzieren. Zugunsten ihrer Forschung.

Launch of the new interdisciplinary Francis Crick Institute in central London.

Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.

Mice or rats, pigs or dogs, they were usually male: researchers avoided using female animals for fear that their reproductive cycles and hormone fluctuations would confound the results of delicately calibrated experiments.

Its opening represents a key step in the university’s plans to improve the experience for its 3,500 postdocs, who comprise the largest group of staff at Cambridge.

130 Millionen Franken gibt die staatliche Innovationsförderstelle KTI jedes Jahr für Projekte und Jungunternehmen aus. Eine Untersuchung auf Druck der Finanzkontrolle förderte gravierende Missstände zutage.

Die Universität Fribourg erhält erstmals in ihrer 125-jährigen Geschichte eine Rektorin: Der Senat der Freiburger Hochschule hat am Donnerstag die Juristin Astrid Epiney zur neuen Leiterin der Uni Fribourg gewählt.

“A greater number of Europhobic members … in the European Parliament would certainly have negative consequences on the idea to turn scientific research and innovation into a great European policy” says Jean-Pierre Audy, an EPP parliamentarian from France.

Disagreements may cause "irreparable harm to the German research system," joint statement says

Researchers will now be required to make papers free to read within one year of publication.

The General Assembly of Science Europe has unanimously elected Miguel Seabra, president of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, as the next president of Science Europe.

Erstes Monitoring über alle Aktivitäten auf Schweizer Plattformen zeigt, dass Crowdfunding auch in der Schweiz immer beliebter wird. Gemäss der Studie hat sich das gesammelte Geldvolumen im vergangenen Jahr mehr als verdoppelt.

Roughly 90% of researchers in a recent survey said scientists and policymakers don't communicate enough. But, only about 60% said they were sure of the names of their elected federal representatives.

A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.

Was die Britin Sarah Springman anpackt, macht sie zu Gold. Nun soll sie Rektorin der ETH werden.

In "Falling Behind?" Michael Teitelbaum describes how the "hog cycle" phenomenon played out in the U.S. science and engineering workforce from the end of World War II through the 1998–2005 doubling of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget and subsequent leveling off of funding.