David Matthews

It’s currently shut out of international research in Horizon Europe, but Switzerland is now a member of the €1.9B project to build the world’s largest telescope, becoming the first non-founder country to join the club

Tens of billions of euros will be required to clean up steel manufacturing and the EU needs to decide what route it should take to do this - whether to retrofit old coke furnaces, or build new gas-powered ones

With talks to update the roadmap on EU/China research collaboration stalled, a new report argues the EU should copy Beijing and draw up a list of foreign technologies it wants to acquire. This is the latest warning that Europe lacks intelligence on Chinese research, politics and society.

The last six months have seen a flurry of announcements as brain-hungry countries try to lure researchers, entrepreneurs and students

Academics warn ultra-powerful foundation models that can be adapted to a range of tasks risk infecting all AI systems with biases, security flaws and opacity. The EU’s proposed AI act may not be up to mitigating this threat

Currently, countries can self-report emissions, based on proxy measures of other activity. Echoing initiatives in the EU, presidential science advisor Eric Lander now wants to use satellites and sensors to get better data.

While genetic weapons targeting populations and countries are still some way off, security fears over genomics data are growing. But any restrictions could hold back a vital area of medical research

Researchers say AI models are underused because the data they need is kept hidden for commercial reasons

Headbands for scanning brain activity are already on sale to the public. But regulations for how such products should be used are lacking. Experts worry the industry could go down the same road as social media – eventually triggering a public ‘techlash’

At this week’s Summit for Democracy, Washington will set out a new agenda to promote innovation that puts privacy, accountability and transparency at its core