Éanna Kelly

The number of knee replacements doubled in 16 years, but did recipients’ lives improve as a result? With health expenditure set to outpace GDP growth, collecting data to answer questions like this is crucial

Government-commissioned report sketches possible strategies to contain Brexit fallout and maintain UK’s science powerhouse status. Researchers, in denial, don’t want to contemplate them

Foreign influence on universities is reshaping research agendas and leading to self-censorship, foreign affairs committee says

Former science minister David Willetts says public research institutes urgently need more processing power

In the absence of European competitors to companies like Amazon and Microsoft, EU’s two biggest countries are to create an alternative secure data infrastructure

Jo Swinson, leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrat party, pledges ethical AI, R&D tax credits and better access to finance for start-ups led by women, as election campaign gets underway

Using sensors and cameras to see what happens at home ‘needlessly encourages a conflict between science and ethics’, says Australia’s chief scientist Alan Finkel

New document shows how research will fit incoming Commission president’s top-line goals – but will it win more money for the programme?

There needs to be better understanding of the high costs of science publishing, says Maria Leptin, director of the European Molecular Biology Organisation. ‘We can’t afford to go open access’