The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...

Physicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...

Experts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the...

The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...

A recent hack of systems of the umbrella grant funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has rattled researchers but details of...

Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...

The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many...

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets...

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review....

Researchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant...

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent...

On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...

Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research...

Peer reviewers are four times more likely to give a grant application an "excellent" or "outstanding" score rather than a "poor" or...

A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The full...

Most UK-based scientists who penned the most highly research in the last decade are not funded by the country’s top health funders,...

Researchers who collaborate with colleagues abroad may produce work that is less novel than those who have collaborators in the same...

Researchers in Indonesia are up in arms about a metric introduced in 2017 by the nation’s government to measure productivity and...

A huge new international research collaboration may jump-start the race to develop therapies for autism. With more than 113 million euros...

With its complex procedures, unknown evaluations and unconscious biases, applying for research funding is no mean feat. Some researchers...