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Climate Change: Rising Sea Levels Threaten 200,000 England Properties

Climate Change: Rising Sea Levels Threaten 200,000 England Properties

A report indicates that lots of houses in England could be lost to flooding in the coming decades.

Gaia Probe Reveals Stellar DNA and Unexpected 'starquakes'

Gaia Probe Reveals Stellar DNA and Unexpected 'starquakes'

The robotic spacecraft unravels the history of the our galaxy's evolution - and could identify habitable regions of the Milky Way

Research Must Do No Harm: New Guidance Addresses All Studies Relating to People

Research Must Do No Harm: New Guidance Addresses All Studies Relating to People

Springer Nature editors urge consideration of the potential harms of all research relating to human populations, not just that directly involving human participants.

Make Research Integrity Training Mandatory, Say 73% of Australian Researchers

Make Research Integrity Training Mandatory, Say 73% of Australian Researchers

The results of the first national survey to investigate research integrity in Australia indicate broad support for mandatory research integrity training.

Google Engineer Put on Leave After Saying AI Chatbot Has Become Sentient

Google Engineer Put on Leave After Saying AI Chatbot Has Become Sentient

The engineer says the system has the perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to, a human child.

UK Scientists Fear It Will Be Locked out of €100 Billion EU Research Programme

UK Scientists Fear It Will Be Locked out of €100 Billion EU Research Programme

Some British researchers who had secured Horizon Europe funding have already been told that their grants will be cancelled.

UK Researchers Lose Project Leader Roles As Horizon Europe Row Continues

UK Researchers Lose Project Leader Roles As Horizon Europe Row Continues

At least half a dozen UK-based researchers have already lost coordination roles in Horizon Europe consortia because of the failure of Brussels and London to agree UK association to the programme, with the true tally losing out on leadership positions likely much higher.

Life Scientists Have 'Little Awareness' of the Risk That Their Research Could Create New Pathogen Threats

Life Scientists Have 'Little Awareness' of the Risk That Their Research Could Create New Pathogen Threats

Life scientists are often oblivious to the risk of creating deadly new pathogens that could escape from the lab, a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report has warned, as the body draws up new global safety guidelines.

MIT Grads Demonstrate First Ammonia-powered Tractor

MIT Grads Demonstrate First Ammonia-powered Tractor

Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT grads, has transformed a John Deere into the world's first zero-emission, ammonia-powered tractor.

Indigenous Knowledge Reveals History of Fire-prone California Forest

Indigenous Knowledge Reveals History of Fire-prone California Forest

A collaboration between scientists and Native American tribes finds tree density in parts of the Klamath Mountains is at a record high, and at risk of serious wildfires.

Council to Adopt Position on Reforming Research Assessment, but Stresses One Size Should Not Be Made to Fit All

Council to Adopt Position on Reforming Research Assessment, but Stresses One Size Should Not Be Made to Fit All

Member states are set to adopt a position backing research assessment reform in Europe - but they'll stress that any reforms must take into account the diversity of research systems in the EU, according to a draft document seen by Science|Business. Research ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Friday to sign off Council conclusions for research assessment reform in Europe, alongside conclusions on open science, international cooperation and Horizon Europe missions.

UK Plans 'Bigger, Better' Rival to the European Research Council, As Time Runs out on Horizon Europe Association

UK Plans 'Bigger, Better' Rival to the European Research Council, As Time Runs out on Horizon Europe Association

The UK is working on a "bigger, better" rival to the European Research Council as part of an alternative to the Horizon Europe, in response to growing fears that the country will not associate to the framework programme.

ELife and PREreview Extend Partnership to Boost Community Engagement in Open Peer Review

ELife and PREreview Extend Partnership to Boost Community Engagement in Open Peer Review

As eLife moves towards a 'publish, review, curate' model that puts preprints first, the two initiatives will work together to promote diversity in open scholarly review.

Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record - The Scholarly Kitchen

Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record - The Scholarly Kitchen

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle -- from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

A Conversation: Science, Ethics, and Policy

A Conversation: Science, Ethics, and Policy

The word "bioethics" dates only to 1927, and the subject, as an academic discipline, is only about 50 years old, but the ethical questions that accompany scientific discovery are ancient.

G7 Leaders Should Launch 6 International Research Collaborations - to Strengthen All Democracies

G7 Leaders Should Launch 6 International Research Collaborations - to Strengthen All Democracies

At the end of June, leaders of seven of the world's wealthiest economies will meet in Germany. We urge that they move forward quickly and collaboratively on a focused set of R&D initiatives to help solve some of the world's most urgent problems - by working together. At stake is the health and prosperity of millions, and the strength of all liberal democracies.

The Sustainability Movement is 50. Why Are World Leaders Ignoring It?

The Sustainability Movement is 50. Why Are World Leaders Ignoring It?

Environmental sustainability provides a clear route to prosperity and well-being, and people in power need to take notice.