The Netherlands will radically shake up how academics are assessed and promoted, including a shift away from relying on citations and journal impact factors.

Funding could help quantum technology gain commercial footholds in Europe.

Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. 

Chris Ebell, who became director of the initiative in 2015, leaves after differences of opinion with the project’s lead institution.

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

Got an idea that could transform the world? NSF is launching a new contest offers prizes for "biggest" research ideas. On 31 August NSF will begin accepting online entries for the contest. Anyone can submit an idea - from individual scientists to professional societies to a high school science class.

An EU-funded platform is helping to generate answers from known cases by enabling scientists to pool and compare genomic and clinical data.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.

Gates to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.

DFG approved the funding of 17 high-performance electron microscopes with a total sum of €43 million. Funding for seven microscopes, amounting to €24 million, was awarded in the spring.

External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.

Combining expertise from 21 labs in Europe and the US, the International Brain Laboratory will attempt to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Modelled on big physics projects, the International Brain Lab will bring together some of the world’s pre-eminent neuroscientists to probe a single behaviour.

Deep Argo network of floats expands with $4 million from Paul Allen

At a research facility in France 35 countries are working on a project that could transform energy.

WikiTribune has been awarded €385,000 by the Digital News Initiative fund.

A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960.

High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.

Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.

First new outstation in 18 years strengthens city's biomedical profile

The Research Council of Norway has granted ten research groups status as Norwegian Centres of Excellence.

Jeremy Freeman, a neuroscientist from the multimillion-dollar research project set up by the Facebook founder to find global health solutions, talks about his goals

Beijing is ready for the US to stop taking all the credit on AI advancements.

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a biotech billionaire, launched a 'moonshot' to vanquish cancer. But an investigation found the hype far outruns the progress.

Ambitious effort aims to tackle some of the most important problems in cancer biology.