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EU 13 university heads say cost and complexity of winning EU grants means they can’t compete with wealthier peers. But a Commission official tells them to shape up their national support systems if they want to become more successful

Latest: BioMed Alliance: Plan S is “too restrictive and inflexible”

European Court of Auditors says it will investigate whether EU attempts to tackle antibiotic resistance provide value for money, on same day that health and food agencies say the problem is getting worse

Artificial intelligence is powering ahead. But although there is plenty of discussion on the ethics of how it is applied – and much disquiet about issues such as automated decision-making and systemic bias - there is little serious research into the topic

Salary thresholds proposed for the UK’s post-Brexit visa system would lock out skilled laboratory technicians. ‘Without them the science we do here would be impossible,’ says Paul Nurse, director of the Crick Institute in London

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

As newer EU member states complain about brain drain, innovation expert Anita Tregner Mlinaric says increasing salaries is just one part of the answer to luring them home. National research ecosystems need to improve

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