This week: tracking China’s military potential, developing farming robotics and a public Covid hearing
This week: artificial intelligence, state aid, clean tech and more
Heads of major scientific journals asked to appear before House pandemic subcommittee
Commission scoreboard shows return to normal subsidy levels, following Covid-induced uplift
Country also needs to improve its relationship with pharmaceuticals companies, says a former government adviser
The government is to publish its response to a review of research bureaucracy
European Patent Office says technological innovation driven by European and US funding schemes
Labour is road-testing its election promises—what is it considering for universities?
DAAD says researchers should remember that China is a “systematic rival”
Ivory Tower: Exclusive* access to the journal everyone wants to read (*totally made up)
This week: making universities more inclusive, strengthening quantum and space, and Covid-19 hearings
Dutch Unesco resolution on safeguarding scientists adopted unanimously
Biden’s attempt to boost US technology may fall short unless Congress stumps up more cash
How the British International Studies Association helps early career scholars move their research forward
This week: concerns about dual-use research, complaints about Covid measures and criticisms of marine conservation
Action on reproducibility would benefit patients and the economy, say Stephen Bradley and Marcus Munafò
Growing individual and total levels of student debt threaten knock-on effects for the US economy
The world cannot hope to reinvigorate its faltering push to achieve sustainability goals without researchers
This week: a Wuhan suspension, asteroid success and funding for ocean research
Concerns raised that Dutch conservative politician could hinder climate push if confirmed as EU green...
This week: a “massive” pollution programme, gain-of-function scrutiny and infrastructure grants for minority-serving institutions
“Record number” recruited in the last academic year, says Scottish Funding Council
Largest awarding gap between Black students and white students grew last year
House hearings into Covid origins are putting the heat on scientists
Initiatives to direct federal research dollars outside elite institutions could move the needle on underrepresentation
Measure stemming from Covid origins controversy includes requirement to regularly turn over lab notebooks
The government has released statistics on loan repayments and the graduate labour market
Birmingham haematology professor Paul Moss to replace Nicholas Lemoine at the funder in autumn
Government plans to use additional money from EU Covid-19 recovery fund
Future fund reports on two-year pandemic push, with report praising fast response and collaboration