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Democrats complain of ‘unconscionable’ prices for Covid-19 treatment, but drug maker emphasises its own investment

US president pledges sea change in investment as “rest of the world is closing in”

This week: education debt relief, campus vaccination, scientific election candidates and more

Potential of atmospheric additives to mitigate global warming should be explored, experts say
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Read-and-publish agreements will enable US institutions to publish open access in CUP journals

This week: plans for a health R&D agency, Covid-19 inequalities and a new research centre

Both Democrats and Republicans look to boost research agency budgets and maintain US leadership

Royal Society and partners urge action on health data, biodiversity and reducing greenhouse gases

Fatal shootings, including of women of Asian descent, prompt outcry against ‘escalating’ racist attacks

This week: backing for an NSF bill and a call to ease international students’ return

Praise for nominated Nasa administrator, while health secretary narrowly confirmed in Senate vote

Regulators will look into whether mergers cause higher drug prices, lower innovation or anticompetitive conduct

This week: a big publishing deal, executive action on gender and a boost for workers

Bill would direct National Science Foundation to create schemes to help more colleges win funding

Democrats cheer confirmation of Michael Regan, praising his climate and social justice record

Travis Adkins is former African and security studies lecturer

UK Council for Graduate Education points to ‘huge imbalances’ in doctoral education across the globe

Fears for female and minority researchers as national academies’ report details unequal impacts of Covid-19

This week: campus mental health tops university concerns again and NIH head apologises for racism

Academics, industry and officials say $1bn annual public funding should be $32bn by 2026

China and UK collaborated on 16,267 research papers in 2019—up from 750 in 2000

Limited research funding in coronavirus stimulus measures leads to cross-party fears of lasting consequences

Institutional tracking of inventors from minority backgrounds needs national benchmarks, universities tell patent office

This week: National Science Foundation plans, an anti-harassment network and space defence methods

Analysis finds stability of external grants ‘masks concerns’ over impact of Covid-19 on research offices

This week: a Mars landing, a poor review for the EPA, and federal emissions rules

Two reports call for use of industry partnerships to deploy fusion energy technologies

Wayne Channon, head of iosBio, on starting with Innovate UK money before turning to America

Funding agency promised as working group formed to marshal government efforts on low-carbon technology

This week: Republicans aggrieved over Covid-19 relief, science committee’s female chair, and foetal tissue research

Environment agency risk analysis for industrial chemical retracted after White House decree

Governments asked to end subsidies for burning wood, in light of climate change

Federal Bureau of Investigation points to leader’s past insistence that Chinese-Americans are not its focus

This week: Yale University admissions and a Nasa climate adviser

Rule limited use of unpublished scientific evidence in Environmental Protection Agency policymaking

Congress sent evidence of dire impacts of pandemic on researchers ‘ignored’ by Covid-19 relief packages

University of Pennsylvania says centre named after US president received no foreign funding