Branding scientific research with a simplified label risks misleading the public and harming scientific literacy.

This post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.

A major reason is the rise of anti-intellectualism in politics and society – the devaluation of expert knowledge, critical thinking and rigorous empirical analysis of the challenges we face.

Executive summary of an independent study on the economic benefits of open science, showing how sharing research outputs enables reuse, improves efficiency, and supports innovation.

In the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore, universities are operating as developers and landlords. Where does science fit in?

Seit Donald Trump wieder Präsident ist, hat sich die Lage an US-Universitäten drastisch verändert: Studierende fürchten Abschiebungen, Wissenschaftler verlieren ihre Stellen und wichtige Forschungsprojekte werden gestrichen.

For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

Re-examining a 1997 paper claiming women academics need to work 2.4 times harder than their male counterparts, Ulf Sandström suggests what policymakers can learn from overreliance on single studies.

The solution is not to replace existing PhD programs, but to add a STEM innovation PhD track.

In the aquamarine waters off Kenya’s eastern coast, fishing nets often accidentally ensnare endangered sea turtles. A local conservation group has spent years recording these encounters in a sprawling archive of data. Yet much of it remains unused. The authors propose a creative solution: hackathons, a competitive activity that has gained popularity across STEM fields because it challenges participants to quickly develop solutions to real-world problems.

Although modern science has only been around for a few centuries, we've become quite adept at training students in the scientific method. But learning how to translate research insights into practical actions often isn't part of a budding scientist's curriculum.

The traditional commercialisation paradigm isn't the only way to approach knowledge exchange. Kim Stuart and Audrey Cumberford explain a new initiative in Scotland spanning modern and smaller universities and the college sector

On 30 January 2026, the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) published its future agenda for Germany as a centre of science and research, entitled "Science in Germany - Perspectives until 2040". sets out a future agenda for Germany as a centre of science. 

Whistleblower statutes should be changed to incentivize university research groups to investigate potential fraud.

The weaknesses in science's processes have been weaponized against it. It's time to confront those flaws and fix them.

According to data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the share of US basic and applied research funded by the federal government dropped from nearly 48% in 2009 to just over 34% in 2023. As that decline is likely to continue, some state governments are responding by boosting their research spending.

The higher education sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

University-based science parks could become highly attractive sites for deeper engagement with industry, venture capitalists, and start-ups, and help procure government funding too, as proven in the UK, Singapore, and China.