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The European Commission’s 18th annual innovation scoreboard shows the EU has overtaken the US for the first time, while across Europe, the UK and Luxembourg lose their innovation leader status and Estonia joins the ranks of strong innovators

In its quest to become world leader in top industries of the future, Chinese researchers are collaborating more with US academics than with Europeans

Congresswoman poised to become new House science chair pledges to ‘restore its credibility’

NSF plans to send more science envoys on foreign visits. “We’re more committed to international science than ever,” says Rebecca Keiser, head of international science and engineering

Carlos Moedas bemoans erosion of trust in science and fact that truth is now seemingly immaterial. “Politicians lie, people still vote for them, how crazy is that?” he tells the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Toulouse

US officials meeting counterparts in Brussels on next EU research plan, urge more flexibility to make transatlantic research easier - and ask what ‘associate’ partnership would mean

President Trump’s move to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has fired the starting gun on an innovation war, in which the US aims to protect advanced technologies from Chinese incursions. Europe risks being caught in the cross fire