Canada is closest to a deal for access to EU R&D programme. Japan, South Korea and Switzerland are also in line. But local political and budget issues may make access slower than researchers hope
OECD halts publication of China’s science statistics citing ‘anomalies’, but a Chinese official says error is partly to blame and it’s being fixed. EU and US statisticians confess confusion
After 11 years leading Germany’s biggest applied research organisation, Reimund Neugebauer leaves ‘by mutual agreement.’ Karlsruhe president named to succeed him
Science|Business finds five Marie Curie projects that include as participants some of China’s ‘Seven Sons of National Defence,’ risking aid to its military. This is what these projects involve
To the alarm of mostly-US industry, the EU AI Act gets preliminary nod to control the emerging technology – and sets the stage for months of negotiations in Brussels and Washington
US National Science Foundation says it is developing a programme to study research security scientifically – with data on the actual scale and scope of lab leaks
EU leaders are pushing for ‘strategic autonomy’ in key technologies – but a key to that should be a stronger, standardised EU marketplace, says Portuguese MEP Maria da Graça Carvalho
Geopolitics is polarising the world, hampering cross-border science and technology collaboration and slowing progress. Science|Business proposes a few solutions
As western worries mount about science and technology leaks to China, the National Science Foundation aims to start an information-sharing service for universities
Cooperation between Brussels and Washington is set to step up a notch, after their first formal science diplomacy meeting since 2017. Separately, Biden’s new science adviser hails importance of allied R&D cooperation