The US National Institutes of Health has put forward a plan to change how it ranks research proposals and decides which ones to fund.Credit: Timon Schneider/Alamy The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed overhauling how it decides which research projects to fund, and how it reports the outcome of those deliberations. For the
Randomizing parts of grant decision-making increases diversity and reduces costs, argue some researchers.Credit: Andrew Angelov/Alamy Rachel Heyard’s job was to find a signal in the noise, but the trouble was how often there wasn’t one. As a biostatistician in the data team at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Bern, Switzerland’s main public research
For hard-tech startups, manufacturing is an expensive endeavor. Now, Thea Energy has a head start thanks to a grant from the Department of Energy. The fusion energy startup told TechCrunch on Monday that it received a $20 million grant from ARPA-E to help manufacture its modular high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. HTS magnets are expensive but
Laura Dern has written a touching tribute to her “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic World Dominion” co-star Sam Neill, saying: “I will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant.” On Monday news broke that Neill had died at the age of 78. He was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer in 2022, but revealed earlier this
Swiss-Korean director Hae-Sup Sin has been selected to receive the Allwyn Residency Grant at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The scholarship, awarded as part of Future Frames, a program for young European filmmakers, offers a participant the opportunity to participate in a tailor-made professional program in Los Angeles to accelerate the next stage of their