COVID-19

MEPs argue for EU4Health to be funded beyond the expiry date of the pandemic recovery fund

The virus is causing immediate financial pain for institutions everywhere – with the potential for broader upheaval to follow

With international research papers piling up fast, Birmingham Prof. Shakila Thangaratinam tries to make sense of it all for pregnant women and their doctors – a key step to connect science with society

From Science|Business Partner Al-Fanar Media: The Arab region already lagged in government spending on research. Now, with oil prices in decline and Covid-19 taking hold, spending levels could fall further

The world learned its lessons the hard way in containing the virus – it must now react with urgency on climate change

Researchers are monitoring genetic traces of COVID-19 in wastewater to track the course of the pandemic, find hotspots and predict outbreaks. Now standard methods are needed for a global sewage epidemiology system

Research commissioner Mariya Gabriel tells a Science|Business online conference her team and commission services are working out exact details of how €13.5B from COVID-19 recovery fund is to be allocated within Horizon Europe

COVID-19 has elevated, but also exposed scientists. Politicians want clarity, but it’s crucial to explain what is known, unknown and unknowable, says Rolf-Dieter Heuer, chair of the EU group of chief scientific advisers

A flurry of cooperation projects has enabled Europe’s main life sciences research data infrastructure ELIXIR, to team up with EMBL’s bioinformatics institute and work together on building an EU health data space

Academics speak out against ‘ridiculous’ studies that are getting submitted to journals and urge ‘self-restraint’ be restored