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Sea Burials: Where Space Stations, Rockets Rust in Peace

Sea Burials: Where Space Stations, Rockets Rust in Peace

Hundreds of bits of rocket, space stations and satellites have returned to Earth since the 1960s. They are often dumped at sea. How sustainable is that?

Social Consequences of the Pandemic: "The Super-Rich in the West Are Evading Their Responsibility"

Social Consequences of the Pandemic: "The Super-Rich in the West Are Evading Their Responsibility"

Former top World Bank economist Branko Milanović is afraid that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened the wealth divide. Those who have profited most from the crisis, he fears, have broken their pledge to help countries in need.

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge

In 2020, sexual orientation and gender identity are still a mere afterthought in the asylum granting process. The SOGICA project has been documenting the consequences of this lack of understanding and provides recommendations for future British, German, Italian and European policy.

ELife Extends Support for Coko's Work on Open-source Publishing Solutions

ELife Extends Support for Coko's Work on Open-source Publishing Solutions

eLife and Coko will continue working together on new systems and approaches to research communication.

Thinktank ohne Kontrolle: Kauft sich Milliardär Alfred Schindler ein Uni-Institut?

Thinktank ohne Kontrolle: Kauft sich Milliardär Alfred Schindler ein Uni-Institut?

Mit privaten Mitteln gründen Liberale an der Uni Luzern eine Denkfabrik. Wie viel Geld geflossen ist und was sie vorhaben, verraten die Involvierten nicht.

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

New Analysis Finds Global Covid Death Toll is Double Official Estimates

New Analysis Finds Global Covid Death Toll is Double Official Estimates

In the United States, the analysis estimates, 905,000 people have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic.

Schools in the U.S. Should Continue to Use Masks, C.D.C. Advises.

Schools in the U.S. Should Continue to Use Masks, C.D.C. Advises.

The announcement sought to clarify the surprise recommendation that vaccinated people could largely stop wearing masks in most cases.

Speech by President von der Leyen at the Nobel Prize Summit

Speech by President von der Leyen at the Nobel Prize Summit

Highlights, press releases and speeches

How Higher Education Needs to Fit into Lifelong Learning

How Higher Education Needs to Fit into Lifelong Learning

Graeme Atherton, Director of the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON), University of West London and Gordon Marsden, Shadow Minister for Higher and Further Education and Skills from 2015 to 2019. You can find Graeme and Gordon on Twitter @NEONHE @GordonMarsden. Lighter days, brighter COVID statistics and the tremendous NHS achievement of mass vaccination across the […]

University of California System Will No Longer Require SAT and ACT Scores for Admission After Settlement Reached

University of California System Will No Longer Require SAT and ACT Scores for Admission After Settlement Reached

The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.

'Superagency' May Further Politicize Indonesian Research

'Superagency' May Further Politicize Indonesian Research

Indonesia has dismantled its science ministry and created an overarching national research agency, a move some scientists worry will strengthen political control over research in a country where academic freedom is already under pressure and politics have taken an authoritarian turn.

Open-access Publisher PLOS Pushes to Extend Clout Beyond Biomedicine

Open-access Publisher PLOS Pushes to Extend Clout Beyond Biomedicine

The publisher will launch five new journals, and has introduced a new business model that aims to spread the cost of publishing more fairly.

Revisiting: Challenges for Academics in the "Global South"

Revisiting: Challenges for Academics in the "Global South"

Revisiting a 2018 post discussing that for social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this revisited guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.

Sex, Mars, the Universe and Our Next 500 Years: A Plan

Sex, Mars, the Universe and Our Next 500 Years: A Plan

American geneticist Chris Mason says we have a moral duty to preserve life in all its forms. He proposes a 500-year plan to hack life and survive on Mars.

Nasa Spacecraft Leaves Asteroid Bennu with a Belly Full of Space Rock Samples

Nasa Spacecraft Leaves Asteroid Bennu with a Belly Full of Space Rock Samples

Osiris-Rex has been flying around the ancient asteroid since 2018 and collected nearly a pound of rubble last fall

You Can't Dissect a Virtual Cadaver

You Can't Dissect a Virtual Cadaver

Last year, my first in medical school at Columbia University, I used a bone saw to slice through the top half of a cadaver's skull, revealing a gray brain lined with purple blood vessels. This was Clinical Gross Anatomy, the first-year course that has fascinated or devastated (or both) every medical student. You never forget the day you open the skull.

Groundbreaking Cat Science Shows They Love to Sit in Illusory Boxes, Too

Groundbreaking Cat Science Shows They Love to Sit in Illusory Boxes, Too

Our feline friends certainly wow us with their cleverness - they can fetch things, open doors, navigate seemingly impossible obstacles, and even understand basic instructions (when they feel like it, anyway).