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News News: President Trump's executive order gives political appointees control over federal science grants, requiring agencies like NIH and NSF to ensure funding.
The academic conference no-show might feel like a minor inconvenience, but it might represent evidence of a growing concern with CV padding over contributions to the field.
So far, 2025 has seen a flurry of policy initiatives as the new European Commission got down to work. August offers a moment to pause and reflect ahead of a busy autumn.
European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes
The country is lagging behind the EU and China as a reliable research partner. But this can be fixed.
The European Commission's push to exert more control over the European Research Council (ERC) risks undermining one of the EU's most successful scientific institutions, policy experts warn.
A growing research field known as 'the science of science' will be essential for navigating an uncertain future.
The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven't tracked across into the practice of peer review. Why not?
The European Commission has suggested blocking Israel from a grant targeting start-ups, as EU outrage grows at Israel's food blockade of Gaza, which has begun to cause widespread starvation in the besieged territory.
The review article explores the differences between university startup entrepreneurs and corporate entrepreneurs, and why the latter are more successful.
National Science Foundation employees are among the latest federal scientists to issue a statement expressing concern over the Trump administration’s actions. The statement refers to “a series of politically motivated and legally questionable actions by the Administration that threaten the integrity of the NSF.”
A new study explores how narrative CVs are reshaping research evaluation and academic representation.
