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Minister Freeman announces new global research fund to deepen collaboration between the UK and international R&D powers like Japan.
Data show that the representation of scientists from marginalized ethnicities dwindles at each stage of UK academia.
Researchers relieved by decision to reaffirm previous spending commitments.
The EU moved to exclude the UK from Horizon Europe calls on sensitive quantum projects in October due to doubts over the country's willingness to provide EU researchers with reciprocal access to UK programmes and to comply with intellectual property rules. The move reverses the EU's previous decision to accept UK participation in more mature quantum projects with high 'technology readiness levels'.
Political tensions mean both nations have been shut out of the EU's prestigious Horizon programme.
George Freeman has been reappointed as UK science minister four months after he resigned from the post when former prime minister Boris Johnson lost power. Jan Palmowski, secretary general at The Guild of European Research Intensive universities welcomed the news, telling Science|Business, Freeman knows the science sector and "gets the importance of Europe."
It is often taken as a given that higher education shapes the politics of students. However, drawing on evidence from the British Election Study, Tom Fryer finds students' political attitudes do not change radically during their studies.
The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor says every government department needs to take science into consideration and invest more in R&D.
Nusrat Ghani faces pressing issues such as the future of funding for Britain's researchers.
New Prime Minister Liz Truss has yet to appoint someone to oversee research, and her economic policy has sparked a currency crisis.
The number of cabinet committees has been slimmed down from 20 to just six, with the National Science and Technology Council among those abolished.
Scheme gets under way as data suggests Environment Agency's own monitoring leaves rivers unprotected
Populist slogans won't cut it: the new UK government has nothing to lose and everything to gain by working constructively with scientists and universities.
Liz Truss may not honor promises by outgoing leader Boris Johnson to make the United Kingdom a "science superpower".
The UK government's plan to increase R&D spending requires a skilled workforce which its universities and research institutes will struggle to assemble, expert witnesses told the House of Lords' science and technology committee today. "The attractiveness of the UK as a destination for scientists might have decreased in recent years," said Maggie Dallman, vice president for international affairs and associate provost for academic partnerships at Imperial College London.
The UK government, raising the political heat over Brexit, began legal proceedings against the European Union for blocking its membership in the €95.5 billion research programme, Horizon Europe.
British foreign secretary triggers formal dispute proceedings with Brussels over British access to EU science programs.
As action on climate change becomes ever more urgent, it requires ever greater public action. The next stage of the transition to net-zero emissions demands changes to the vehicles we drive, the way we heat our homes and our choices as consumers.
A report says that the government's approach 'feels like setting off on a marathon with your shoelaces tied together'.
The European Commission has rejected calls from research leaders on both sides of the English Channel for it to put politics aside and allow Switzerland and the UK to join the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.
Uncertainty in British politics is a headache for UK researchers
With the United Kingdom ever more likely to leave the European Union's science-funding programmes, an alternative has been proposed.
As Brexit dispute deepens, grant winners are forced to reject money or move to Europe.
