The UK decision to leave the EU cuts at science’s core ethos of openness. As exit negotiations lurch along, researchers from across Europe are yet to spot a bright side to losing such an important science partner
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
International Science Council unites 180 natural and social sciences organisations ‘to make the voice of science heard by those taking decisions’. One route to increasing influence will be to piggy-back the lobbying might of private sector research
High consumption rates and the widespread use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is worrying, and ‘Romania is at a cross-roads’ says the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
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