EU efforts to reduce the east-west gap in research and innovation should be backed by investment and reforms in member states, the EU auditor says in a report reviewing funding schemes set up by the European Commission to help bridge the divide.

Springer Nature editors urge consideration of the potential harms of all research relating to human populations, not just that directly involving human participants.

The European Research Council (ERC) is set to introduce lump sum funding to its Advanced grants for experienced researchers starting in 2024.

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

The robotic spacecraft unravels the history of the our galaxy's evolution - and could identify habitable regions of the Milky Way

A report indicates that lots of houses in England could be lost to flooding in the coming decades.

The results of the first national survey to investigate research integrity in Australia indicate broad support for mandatory research integrity training.

After weeks of internal debate, the US government broadened its sanctions against Russia to expressly include scientific relations.

Research leaders have this week put their weight behind a manifesto calling for moves to make research careers more attractive in a bid to stop the brain drain away from science.

EU science ministers signed off an agreement backing research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions.

Some British researchers who had secured Horizon Europe funding have already been told that their grants will be cancelled.

At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad.

At least half a dozen UK-based researchers have already lost coordination roles in Horizon Europe consortia because of the failure of Brussels and London to agree UK association to the programme, with the true tally losing out on leadership positions likely much higher.

Over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has stepped up its scientific production and its investment in higher education.

Life scientists are often oblivious to the risk of creating deadly new pathogens that could escape from the lab, a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report has warned, as the body draws up new global safety guidelines.

The world has changed a lot since our last global survey of PhD students in 2019. This year's survey includes master's students for the first time.

The Swiss National Science Foundation's 'narrative' template seeks evidence of applicants' wider contributions to science.

Member states are set to adopt a position backing research assessment reform in Europe - but they'll stress that any reforms must take into account the diversity of research systems in the EU, according to a draft document seen by Science|Business. Research ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Friday to sign off Council conclusions for research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions.

A collaboration between scientists and Native American tribes finds tree density in parts of the Klamath Mountains is at a record high, and at risk of serious wildfires.

Discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions

Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT grads, has transformed a John Deere into the world's first zero-emission, ammonia-powered tractor.

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle -- from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

As eLife moves towards a 'publish, review, curate' model that puts preprints first, the two initiatives will work together to promote diversity in open scholarly review.

Firing of funding agency board alarms research sector.

The UK is working on a "bigger, better" rival to the European Research Council as part of an alternative to the Horizon Europe, in response to growing fears that the country will not associate to the framework programme.

The country has been increasing research funding for decades, but its rigid, time-bound approach to research assessment is stifling basic science.

A coalition of research funders has been advocating for free, unrestricted access to publications since 2018. The SNSF is now joining them and adapting its Open Access requirements.

Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how 'like us' monkeys are

Vice-chancellors ask both sides to work together to save the UK's role in a multi-billion-pound scheme.

New framework aims to improve inclusion and ethics in global research collaborations amid wider efforts to end exploitative practices.