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Leading a university department can slow a researcher’s output to a trickle. Scholars who’ve done it offer strategies to keep research creativity flowing.

One of Germany’s biggest research-funding organizations is hoping ‘distributed peer review’ can help to tackle the reviewer shortage.

The country continues to prove a popular destination for international researchers, but the number of South Korea-based scholars who are relocating is rising.

An overview of the countries and institutions that dedicate a high proportion of their research to neuroscience.

Insights from a new critical mass of patients are proving invaluable.

The United States is setting the pace, but other nations are following their own paths.

As development of the technology accelerates, countries are weighing the costs and benefits of how they regulate it.

Investment in large neuroscience initiatives is starting to show results, but questions remain over whether they can solve the most fundamental questions about cognition.

Using creative approaches and next-generation tools, these researchers hope to shed light on long-standing mysteries in neuroscience.

Neurological conditions affect more than 40% of the population, and some countries are struggling to cope.

Teams of up to seven researchers are reviewing papers submitted to the Stacks Journal, which wants to bring evaluation of scientific work back from the brink.

Funders launch projects with US$70-million to develop tools that make rapid syntheses of the world’s science.

The concepts were judged by reviewers and were not told who or what had created them.

Chatbots and other tools are increasingly being considered, but people power is still seen as a safer option.

AI is changing the way researchers work forever, but human expertise must continue to hold sway.

The power of big tech is outstripping any ‘Brussels effect’ from the EU’s AI Act.

Researchers across the continent are using artificial intelligence to design bespoke solutions for health, development and more.

A few key countries have become hubs of collaboration in artificial intelligence.

Industry research funding is vastly eclipsing academia’s spend, but healthy development demands broad input.

A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel.