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Assessing Potential Future Artificial Intelligence Risks, Benefits and Policy Imperatives

Assessing Potential Future Artificial Intelligence Risks, Benefits and Policy Imperatives

The swift evolution of AI technologies calls for policymakers to consider and proactively manage AI-driven change. This OECD's report distils research and expert insights on prospective AI benefits, risks and policy imperatives.

Major Biomedical Funder NIH Poised for Massive Reform Under Trump 2.0

Major Biomedical Funder NIH Poised for Massive Reform Under Trump 2.0

Sweeping changes and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the US National Institutes of Health.

Science Europe Plans ‘Systemic Change’ in Research Sustainability

Science Europe Plans ‘Systemic Change’ in Research Sustainability

Association of research funding and performing organisations seeks to lead by example

AI and Research Software: Helping Hand or Faustian Pact?

AI and Research Software: Helping Hand or Faustian Pact?

Some researchers’ use of chatbot-written code might be running ahead of their understanding

Preprints at a Crossroads - Are We Compromising Openness for Credibility?

Preprints at a Crossroads - Are We Compromising Openness for Credibility?

Bringing together a range of studies into various aspects of how preprints interact with the wider information ecosystem, Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Alice Fleerackers argue that the speed, accessibility and low barriers to entry that preprints offer to scholarly communication risk being undermined by attempts to make them more aligned to traditional academic publications.

US Trust in Scientists Plunged During the Pandemic - But It's Starting to Recover

US Trust in Scientists Plunged During the Pandemic - But It's Starting to Recover

Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now started to rise.

Can AI Review the Scientific Literature - and Figure Out What It All Means?

Can AI Review the Scientific Literature - and Figure Out What It All Means?

Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.

AI-generated Images Threaten Science - Here's How Researchers Hope to Spot Them

AI-generated Images Threaten Science - Here's How Researchers Hope to Spot Them

Generative-AI technologies can create convincing scientific data with ease - publishers and integrity specialists fear a torrent of faked science.

'It Could Be a Catastrophe': Déjà Vu and Panic for Scientists As Trump Wins Second Term

'It Could Be a Catastrophe': Déjà Vu and Panic for Scientists As Trump Wins Second Term

The research community fears another Trump presidency will be worse than the first, but the chemical and biotech sectors are more optimistic

Grass-roots Grant-writing Approaches Can Help Researchers at Small Institutions to Succeed

Grass-roots Grant-writing Approaches Can Help Researchers at Small Institutions to Succeed

At small or minority-serving institutions, time and resources that are needed to draft successful grant proposals are often in short supply. But help is available.

What Trump's Election Victory Could Mean for AI, Climate and More

What Trump's Election Victory Could Mean for AI, Climate and More

Experts speak to whether the president-elect will make good on his pledges for science.

'We Need to Be Ready for a New World': Scientists Globally React to Trump Election Win

'We Need to Be Ready for a New World': Scientists Globally React to Trump Election Win

Trump's decisive defeat of Kamala Harris spurs fear about the future of the United States among many researchers.

Call for More EU Investment in R&D After Trump Win

Call for More EU Investment in R&D After Trump Win

Worries are mounting in Europe after Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, with the EU scrambling to chart a future in which it is less dependent on the US for defence and technology.

Beamtimes and Knowledge Production Times: How Big-Science Research Infrastructures Shape Nations' Domestic and International Science Production

Beamtimes and Knowledge Production Times: How Big-Science Research Infrastructures Shape Nations' Domestic and International Science Production

Frontier scientific discoveries increasingly rely on big-science research infrastructures. This study investigates the effects of one of China’s prominent big-science infrastructures on the country’s production of science. 

How to Demonstrate the Real-world Impact of Your Research

How to Demonstrate the Real-world Impact of Your Research

Influencing policymakers might not feel like part of a researcher's role. But it should be, argue Martha Newson and Sadie Watson.

Draft Council Declaration Sets R&I Spending Target at 4% of GDP

Draft Council Declaration Sets R&I Spending Target at 4% of GDP

EU leaders are considering setting a target for public and private research and innovation spending to reach 4% of GDP, even as they cut national research budgets and show no signs of meeting the current 3% target.

Far-right Governments Seek to Cut Billions of Euros from Research in Europe

Far-right Governments Seek to Cut Billions of Euros from Research in Europe

Anti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.