David Matthews

Blanket subsidies to generate hydrogen in the US are already tempting European producers to set up manufacturing sites across the Atlantic. The issue became a flashpoint in recent negotiations between Washington and Brussels

Scientists and policymakers are meeting in Montreal to agree a new plan to save the world’s habitats and species. But researchers do not have a full understanding of biodiversity loss, or what governments are doing in response

Locked out of the EU research programme, Swiss universities are nervous of losing money set aside for association. Parliamentarians now want to protect this cash in a ‘Horizon Fund’

At the third transatlantic Trade and Technology Council, Brussels and Washington agreed to draw up shared AI terminology and technical standards. But the two are still a way apart on how to regulate the technology

Researchers don’t have the money, infrastructure or coordination of standards to get to grips with an unregulated information environment. A new, centralised and properly resourced research institute is needed

Both hope to sign off on association by next spring. But Canada would only associate to Horizon’s pillar II, focusing on grand challenges and industrial competitiveness

European partners don’t understand what support is available from the UK, leading them to sideline scientists over ‘uncertainty’ , vice-provost warns

Phages are viruses that destroy bacteria and have the potential to supplement waning antibiotics. But researchers and entrepreneurs say the regulatory and funding environment is far from clear

Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager aims to create a ‘transatlantic space for trustworthy AI’, giving companies a single set of rules to follow. But some fear the EU and the US are still too far apart in their approach to see eye-to-eye on the technology

In the first big spending announcement under new prime minister Rishi Sunak, the government also relieved universities by sticking to plans to boost government R&D investment to £20B by 2024