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Why is Scientific Collaboration Key? 4 Experts Explain

Why is Scientific Collaboration Key? 4 Experts Explain

Pressing global challenges including the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, food security and future global health crises will require collaboration.

Researchers' Career Insecurity Needs Attention and Reform Now, Says International Coalition

Researchers' Career Insecurity Needs Attention and Reform Now, Says International Coalition

Postdocs and PhD students around the world require professional training to prepare them for a possible career outside academia, finds the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Nasa Spacecraft Captures First Closeups of Jupiter's Largest Moon in Decades

Nasa Spacecraft Captures First Closeups of Jupiter's Largest Moon in Decades

Juno passed within 645 miles of Ganymede, the closest any spacecraft has come to the moon since 2000.

White Smoke? EU Deal over Quantum, Space Research Lets Horizon Europe Proceed

White Smoke? EU Deal over Quantum, Space Research Lets Horizon Europe Proceed

Researchers from Israel, Switzerland, Britain and other non-EU countries may be allowed to join the EU's quantum and space research projects, under a deal between representatives of member states and the European Commission reached this week. The agreement could end months of uncertainties around international participation in sensitive R&D projects in Horizon Europe, the EU's new €95.5 billion R&D programme.

Climate Tipping Points Could Topple Like Dominoes, Warn Scientists

Climate Tipping Points Could Topple Like Dominoes, Warn Scientists

Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects.

Congress is Set to Make a Down-payment on Innovation in America

Congress is Set to Make a Down-payment on Innovation in America

Federal spending on research is about to get a boost | United States

Mars: Nasa's Perseverance Rover's First 100 Days in Pictures

Mars: Nasa's Perseverance Rover's First 100 Days in Pictures

Stunning images as Nasa's Perseverance continues its mission to seek signs of past microbial life.

SHAPE-ID: Final Event & Toolkit Launch

SHAPE-ID: Final Event & Toolkit Launch

Pathways to Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: The SHAPE-ID Toolkit. Join us on 10 June for our final event and the launch of our project toolkit, which offers tools and resources to help researchers, research organisations, funders, policymakers, and societal partners make informed decisions about developing and supporting inter- and transdisciplinary research.

Coronavirus Variants Get Greek Names - but Will Scientists Use Them?

Coronavirus Variants Get Greek Names - but Will Scientists Use Them?

From Alpha to Omega, the labelling system aims to avoid confusion and stigmatization.

A Time Capsule for Future Social Researchers

A Time Capsule for Future Social Researchers

We ask prominent scholars to select a visual artifact of this time that will help future researchers understand the Covid-19 crisis.

Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think

Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think

I can't see them. Therefore they're not real." From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged in February 2019 from Fox & Friends presenter Pete Hegseth, who was referring to … germs. 

Science Ministers Commit to Improving Research Careers in Europe

Science Ministers Commit to Improving Research Careers in Europe

EU research ministers on Friday committed to enhance the attractiveness of research careers and improve brain circulation in Europe, and are calling on member states and the European Commission to take a common approach. That will include setting up an EU system to track mobility of talent, assess working conditions and promote gender and intergenerational equality.

UFO-report by US Military and Intelligence Agencies to Be Released

UFO-report by US Military and Intelligence Agencies to Be Released

A task force will share data it collected on unusual flight phenomena with Congress. UFO enthusiasts rejoice. But a German expert with decades of research under his belt doesn't believe aliens have ever been to Earth.

Open Science in Spain: Towards a Coordinated Strategy

Open Science in Spain: Towards a Coordinated Strategy

Spain needs to set out a wider and clear OS strategy and take decisive, coordinated actions that build upon and improve existing structures to bring itself back to the forefront of OS.

Prestigious European Grants Might Be Biased, Study Suggests

Prestigious European Grants Might Be Biased, Study Suggests

Institutional affiliations of panellists seem to skew European Research Council decisions - especially in the life sciences.