51³Ô¹Ï

After more than a decade of federal spending increases, the country also looks set to overtake Japan on the proportion of GDP spent on innovation

Dutch coronavirologist describes how work put on ice two years ago turned into a major discovery 

Protecting the European research budget offers better long-term hopes of saving the European project

Trade-offs involved in pandemic are ¡®bread and butter¡¯ for the discipline and it could be ¡®drawn into the broad sciences¡¯, experts suggest

A renewed European Research Area can be a fresh call to arms for scientific excellence across the continent, says Jan Palmowski

Filling the gaps between disciplines and between science and technology could lead to greater progress than AI, says Jinghai Li 

Innovation on the line, as coronavirus unleashes domino effect on research mainstream

Clay feet of cross-subsidy policies exposed by Covid-19 crisis, representative groups say

Academics involved say they also have a responsibility to ensure technology is used ethically in real life, particularly amid Covid-19  

Yes, excess haste can lead to mistakes, but the same is true of natural science, says Sandro Galea

Impact usually originates in discoveries by smart people who could not possibly have dreamed of the application, says Douglas Kell

UK drops to third in development-adjusted ranking of higher education systems

Stanford doctor warns extreme partisanship may taint future research

The coronavirus means that Christiaan De Beukelaer¡¯s research on a sailing cargo ship is lasting a lot longer than he bargained for

Publisher coalition also embracing assessments through preprint formats

Financial incentives for developing new mass-testing methods would be more effective than coordinating research centrally, says economist Paul Romer

Newly funded work to include investigations into how the city brought infections down to nearly zero

The award-winning author and journalist on the essay that changed her life and why academic research revolves around men

About 200 projects contribute to research and aim to engage students during campus shutdowns

If contributing to knowledge is the name of the game, what is wrong with description, asks Michael Marinetto

51³Ô¹Ï recession may make public and policymakers think more about those ¡®at the bottom of society¡¯, says social policy academic

Myths notwithstanding, devolving research agendas to disciplines has a poor record of success, says Steve Fuller

Some types of patient data, crucial for understanding who might be worst hit by the virus, are often inaccessible for researchers. A new portal hopes to change that

Educational economist Miguel Urquiola tells Matthew Reisz about the upsides of inequality and the dangers of ¡®unbundling¡¯

Partnership approach during pandemic raises hopes of bursting scientific silos 

Pandemic crisis is chance to consider longer post-study work visas and even route to citizenship for foreign students, Chris Skidmore tells THE event

After rejection of virtual peer review, federal agency halts new awards, prompting concerns for younger researchers

Looking at past crises can help us come to terms with our own, argues scholar of plague that ravaged 18th-century Prague

Katie Metzler would like to see the different disciplines become more than the sum of their parts

Being trapped in Peru as countries went into lockdown showed us just how little support is available to researchers working abroad, a group of biologists writes

Quarantined patients, laboratories in lockdown and huge drop in charity income may cause drug trials to fail, warn research leaders

¡®There is a life in science beyond the virus,¡¯ warns German rectors¡¯ head, amid calls for attention to the trade-offs between shutdowns and scientific progress

Several years ago, a few young men who identified as ¡®involuntary celibate¡¯ formed a self-help group. However, they went on to embrace vicious and sometimes murderous misogyny. Kaitlyn Regehr tells Ellie Bothwell why she felt impelled to explore their disturbing world

Rebuffed on pricing and open access, universities refuse full-access renewals

With insights from a variety of fields potentially useful in the fight against coronavirus, some French academics are arguing for more research and data to be made publicly available

Let¡¯s bury the fallacy that students favour particular approaches regardless of the topic, says Gavin Moodie

Unexpected numbers are tuning into doctoral and master¡¯s defences, with shutdown likely to lead to longer-term reforms to vivas, says Dutch professor

Whatever the truth around Mauro Ferrari¡¯s resignation from the ERC, the affair raises an important issue, says Luca Magnani

Mauro Ferrari departed after suggesting launch of a coronavirus programme, but critics warn against abandoning blue-skies science, even in a crisis

Data suggest research related to the outbreak already numbers thousands of publications   

Rolling Stone shows how improvisation in difficult circumstances can lead to memorable results, but scholars must also be honest about trade-offs caused by lockdown, say Bailey Sousa and Alexander Clark

Out of the fires and into virus land, academics and institutions find myriad ways to help

Mauro Ferrari leaves after just four months in role following rejection of his suggestion that council launch a programme to fight Covid-19

You might not be in a lab searching for a vaccine, but take the long view and remember your research is still valuable to humanity, says Andy Miah

Reliance on formulas and philosophies giving way to complexity and case studies

Grants yet to flow from new fund as nation endures rolling natural catastrophes

Virtual THE forum hears academics and funders explore how research landscape may change in wake of virus crisis

Derision of expertise has been concentrated in the US ¨C but that¡¯s where it matters most, say former Antipodean chief scientists

Six months of devastating and unprecedented destruction has brought home the reality of climate change to many Australians. But with time for mitigation short and some politicians still in denial, what more can universities do to save the ¡®lucky country¡¯ ¨C and the rest of the planet? John Ross reports

Varying personal circumstances highlight the need for accommodations that outlive the coronavirus, says Phil Emmerson

UNSW Sydney-led network highlights coronavirus and climate change parallels on need for global coordination

As campuses and labs close amid the coronavirus crisis, Jack Grove hears how senior scientists are managing their teams and research projects

Research funders, regulator and bureaucrats ease pressure on academics and universities as coronavirus blows out timelines

Denying legitimate authors their fair share of credit amounts to academic misconduct, says David Sanders

To stop economic destruction, we need to refocus vast resources from other productive activity ¨C a truly grand prize might do the trick, says Chris Callaghan

Whether it is establishing new departments or working at breakneck speed, Britain¡¯s research base is mobilising in extraordinary ways to combat Covid-19

Slashing research will be a dangerous temptation for politicians desperate for savings, warns Jan Palmowski

As their book about the deep links between education and well-being is published, Anne Case and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton tell John Morgan about their jaw-dropping discoveries of a sharp rise in ¡®deaths of despair¡¯ among white American people ¨C and an unhealthy obsession with causality among journals

The namesake cities in the US and UK are both home to internationally renowned universities whose industry collaborations are proving highly successful. But while that is good news for national economies, where does it leave the locals priced out of their own neighbourhoods? Paul Basken and John Morgan report

The search for a coronavirus vaccine is spurring worldwide collaboration, the speed and size of which has never been seen before, say experts