The increased budget, continuity, and side lining the UK and Switzerland, are seen as contributing to an increase in success rates for researchers applying for EU grants. But some warn it’s too early to assume the improvement will be sustained
Alongside a big injection of cash for basic and applied research, the Chips and Science bill will put more than $50B into semiconductor manufacturing, mirroring EU action to bring chip production back onshore
Spectacular images beamed back to earth this month marked the end of a 30-year project to design and build the James Webb telescope. Canada played a key part, and the skills and expertise acquired are propelling its space sector forward
AI tools are now allowing so-called paper mills to trick journals with fake articles on an industrial scale. The issue risks scientific integrity and is beginning to get high level political attention
The focus of EU-funded research is shifting from early academic work to applications that will have an impact in areas such as the green transition and digitisation. Universities are calling for clarity on the political priorities that are driving this shift
As part of a Biden administration push to protect democracy, researchers will try to detect money laundering and pandemic risk from datasets without compromising user information
With hopes of association fading, London has set out an agenda for a domestic alternative. But a new prime minister could threaten money promised for research
Cancer researchers report they are struggling to see how their work fits into the overarching objective of the Cancer Mission to save three million lives, saying the calls are not targeted at the fundamental science needed to deliver on this objective
Ilan Gur, a veteran of the US’s advanced research agency for energy, will lead a risk-taking UK funding agency, after a previously appointed chief executive pulled out
The 41 nationally-funded industrial R&D projects in the Hy2Tech programme can now go ahead. They are designed to advance technologies across the piece, to help create an EU-wide renewable hydrogen market
Post-Brexit, the UK government has set out plans for AI that diverge markedly from the EU. Rather than a single regulator, oversight will be left to a multitude of regulators which will tailor rules for sectors ranging from broadcasting to healthcare
In a heated debate, MEPs grilled a Commission official after learning decisions on equity financing for start-ups under the EIC Accelerator must now be rubber stamped by the College of Commissioners, the top of the bureaucratic tree in the EU executive
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