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Proposal to build world’s largest particle collider is facing off against a rival effort in Switzerland. ‘We just need one in the world,’ says Wang Yifang, physicist and mastermind behind China’s accelerator

A drop in government share of global R&D spending sparks alarm – even as political anxiety over the future of technology rises. More than 40 per cent of global R&D is now performed by just 200 companies

At Council meeting, EU member states agree on the programme’s ‘fundamental aspects’, Commissioner says. But they are still debating the details

European academies say government’s proposed reorganisation at the academy will ‘politicise scientific research’

Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan wants a fairer system, and calls for science to break its addiction to ‘vanity’ publications

New joint undertaking for high-performance computing seeks a good home for two petascale supercomputers

Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan outlines benefits of radical Plan S, saying ‘access to knowledge should be free’

Academy president hopes new round of negotiations with government will end ‘unhappy situation’ at Hungary’s largest research network

President Trump’s executive order targets more money for R&D, training, infrastructure and opening up of data collected by state-owned organisations