China is on the cusp of becoming the world’s biggest public funder of research, according to a forecast by US academics, as stalled growth in government investment in the United States coincides with ...

Beijing’s recently announced plan to establish a nature reserve on a contested shoal in the South China Sea is really a form of “lawfare” aimed at establishing sovereignty, according to a pair of ...

The Trump administration has stopped key funding for Springer Nature, the retraction-plagued, controversial publishing behemoth of more than 3,000 scientific and medical journals. Springer Nature ...

The US backed the Philippines in rejecting China’s plan to create a national nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal in the disputed sea that separates the two nations, calling it “destabilizing.” The ...

SUBIC, Philippines, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Philippine fishermen fear that China's plan to establish a nature reserve in the Scarborough Shoal could expose them to further harassment and make it even ...

China’s plan to establish a nature reserve in a disputed South China Sea shoal is a prelude to an eventual occupation, a top Philippine official said, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the ...