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The OECD says big-company spending on R&D is more important than ever. EU policy makers must resolve how to work with industry in their next R&D programme.

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

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

New report makes the case for consolidating trust in science as scientific results become ‘contentious’

Researchers continue test experiments at the largest research infrastructure in central and eastern Europe. EU commissioner for regional policy is ‘very concerned’ about ongoing litigation

Replacing top EU research schemes in the UK post-Brexit is ‘a formidable challenge’, says House of Lords. International scientific collaborations could not be replicated at the national level

After the prolonged and – as yet undelivered – promise of a managed process, the UK is bracing for a rocky, no-deal Brexit. We are doing the best we can to find a way through it, a recent Science|Business meeting heard