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British researchers no longer win the most grants for established scientists, having already fallen behind in early career category

Prizes of ?80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Recognising the dominant role of intelligence in academic performance is key to ending the underperformance of poor and minority students, says Richard J. Haier

Critics fear global event risks ¡®trivialising and politicising¡¯ research

Analysis of more than 700,000 biomedical texts reveals growing use of jargon

Conducting clinical trials during an epidemic for the first time, researchers fast-tracked the creation of a vaccine for Ebola, but not before 11,000 people had died

Country¡¯s publications in high-quality journals decline in relative and absolute terms

Health and environmental agencies face savage reductions as defence spending soars

The ¡®indigenisation¡¯ of Canada¡¯s academy has had many positives, but some scholars are uneasy about universities¡¯ reluctance to challenge native beliefs about the world, say Rodney Clifton and Gabor Csepregi

The principles of scepticism and open-mindedness are vital in a post-truth world, an expert on experts tells Matthew Reisz

Matthew Reisz considers gravitational waves, scientific authority and sexual differences

THE analysis reveals the 53 institutions that could surpass Oxbridge and the Ivy League

Who is the man who will take the top job in UK science?

Universities cannot wash their hands of responsibility for who is booked to speak on their premises, says Michael Marshall

JET experimental reactor faces uncertainty following decision to leave Euratom

Neuroscientists argue proposal would improve reproducibility and get drugs to market more quickly

Existing model of outreach that seeks to inform an ¡®ignorant¡¯ public is broken, say experts

What were Heisenberg¡¯s intentions for his work on a nuclear bomb for Hitler, asks Graham Farmelo

Data reveal research ties between US and Muslim nations targeted by attempted ban

In a post-truth era, five academics consider strategies, from inviting laypeople into the laboratory to open vivas, to improve trust in experts

Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else

Sarah Wise on how the insanity plea developed in English law and why ¡®homicidal mania¡¯ became acceptable to experts

Ministry hopes to increase quality of doctorates

University of East Anglia chief says scholars cannot assume that their research findings are ¡®self-evident¡¯

Novo Nordisk to invest ?115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit

Universities need to open up communication channels to help retain women in science, says study

Terence Kealey, former head of the University of Buckingham, tells THE it¡¯s sometimes helpful to think of scientists as ¡®lying bastards¡¯

Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist reflects on the perceptions and realities of how big breakthroughs are made

Attributes of top scientists mapped in new paper

New international consortium tackles major energy challenge

Spanning 200,000 years of human trading, this study considers the influence of technology and the fallout of global interconnectedness, says Juliet Webster

A study probes a silent global epidemic: addiction to prescription medication, says David Healy

Book of the Week: lack of effective antitrust oversight leaves us at the mercy of digital platforms, says Julia Powles

Scholars reflect on ethics and mechanics of a possible ¡®sex tech¡¯ future

Toronto and Pennsylvania researchers arrange events to preserve environmental data

Biochemist named in analysis of US highly cited papers claims it is not his main contribution to science

An expert¡¯s personal guide helps Helen Bynum to get better acquainted with the fascinating ubiquitous microorganisms that live on and in us

Book of the week: The scrutiny to which two intellectuals submit their relationship fascinates Shahidha Bari

Alternative metrics find that research from Barack Obama received the most online attention this year

President of Johns Hopkins University says ¡®deeply poisonous politics¡¯ is also harming the system

President Meric Gertler reflects on Canadian universities¡¯ potential to ¡®capitalise¡¯ on political climate in competitor nations

Many early career researchers have ¡®not gone to the library for years¡¯, according to report

As we cannot cut the cords tethering us to tech, we must fully grasp the connection, says John Gilbey

A study focused on Singapore¡¯s Biopolis centre concentrates on various global ¡®currents¡¯ in bioscience, says Flora Samuel

From atoll to reef, a coleopterist fears we may not know what we¡¯ve got until it¡¯s gone, says Jules Pretty

A biologist who spent 10 years in the African sun seeking to explain the wild horse¡¯s pelage is in a class of his own, says Tim Birkhead

Study looks at how gender preconceptions are formed at primary school level

UK universities can now ¡®feel confident¡¯ in recruiting postgraduate students for 2017-18, says RCUK chair

For British science to thrive rather than just survive, EU partnerships and global recruitment remain key to fruitful collisions of concepts, says Ian Walmsley

Five top European academics offer advice on how to mentor, manage and expand a research team

US study finds biomedical PhDs from certain ethnic minorities are less likely to understand the ¡®hidden¡¯ rules of succeeding in science

Book of the week: A study of our leviathan appetite for seafood dares to go deep and recovers pearls, says Philip Hoare

Tristan Bekinschtein lauds a Nobel laureate¡¯s fusion of art interpretation and analysis with the internal mechanisms by which we see works of art

Are our mental faculties really too unevolved to keep us afloat in an ocean of digital distraction? asks Shane O¡¯Mara

Greatly expanded satellite programme should provide vital new data

Minority groups still not represented at professorial level by 2080, study suggests

Researcher sent thousands of emails trying to get paper published

Researchers are ¡®cautiously optimistic¡¯ about review set up by Justin Trudeau¡¯s government to improve relations with the scientific community

President of VU Amsterdam says it is not enough for institutions merely to say they are valuable