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First Private Moon Lander Touches Down on Lunar Surface to Make History

First Private Moon Lander Touches Down on Lunar Surface to Make History

After a nailbiting descent, the Odysseus spacecraft lands near the lunar south pole and prepares to kick off a week of data-gathering.

How to Boost Your Research: Take a Sabbatical in Policy

How to Boost Your Research: Take a Sabbatical in Policy

Academic researchers have a unique opportunity to benefit society - and their research - by spending time in government.

Science Can Drive Development and Unity in Africa - As It Does in the US and Europe

Science Can Drive Development and Unity in Africa - As It Does in the US and Europe

A plan to establish Africa's first continent-wide science fund should not be delayed any longer.

What the EU's Tough AI Law Means for Research and ChatGPT

What the EU's Tough AI Law Means for Research and ChatGPT

The EU AI Act is the world's first major legislation on artificial intelligence and strictly regulates general-purpose models.

EU Climate Policy is Dangerously Reliant on Untested Carbon-capture Technology

EU Climate Policy is Dangerously Reliant on Untested Carbon-capture Technology

Europe's ambition for emissions reductions is to be welcomed - but look at the detail, and significant hazards emerge.

Could Roving Researchers Help Address the Challenge of Taking Parental Leave?

Could Roving Researchers Help Address the Challenge of Taking Parental Leave?

Institutions are taking notice of a handful of programmes designed to address the issues scientists face when choosing to take a long-term absence.

Embrace Open Science Before It's Too Late

Embrace Open Science Before It's Too Late

A UNESCO report laments the lack of progress in making science more collaborative. Greater awareness could aid efforts to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Number of Black UK Professors Rises by 25% in One Year

Number of Black UK Professors Rises by 25% in One Year

Initiatives such as grass-roots campaigns are likely to have contributed to the uptick, but barriers to progress remain.

How to Make Academic Hiring Fair: Database Lists Innovative Policies

How to Make Academic Hiring Fair: Database Lists Innovative Policies

Reformscape is designed to inspire university leaders by collecting examples of responsible career assessment.

The Open Science Movement for Sharing Laboratory Materials Gains Momentum

The Open Science Movement for Sharing Laboratory Materials Gains Momentum

Many researchers support open science, but how can they translate this view into behaviours to boost sharing?

Long COVID is a Double Curse in Low-income Nations - Here's Why

Long COVID is a Double Curse in Low-income Nations - Here's Why

Not only is the prevalence of the condition poorly understood, but it's also often ignored by physicians and the wider public.

End the Glaring Inequity in International Science Collaborations

End the Glaring Inequity in International Science Collaborations

The world's natural-science research ecosystem remains focused on the priorities of high-income countries. Funders, publishers and scholarly databases can do more to help to rebalance that.

Has Your Research Influenced Policy? Use This Free Tool to Check

Has Your Research Influenced Policy? Use This Free Tool to Check

Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited.

How a Bullying Scandal Closed a Historic Astronomy Department

How a Bullying Scandal Closed a Historic Astronomy Department

At Lund University in Sweden this week, astronomers moved out of a building that was custom-built to hold telescopes and other artefacts from their 350 years of history, and they relocated to a physics building down the road. That’s because the astronomy department no longer exists, having been dissolved in the wake of a bullying scandal.

Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data

Towards Understanding Policy Design Through Text-as-data Approaches: The Policy Design Annotations (POLIANNA) Dataset - Scientific Data

Despite the importance of ambitious policy action for addressing climate change, large and systematic assessments of public policies and their design are lacking as analysing text manually is labour-intensive and costly. POLIANNA is a dataset of policy texts from the European Union (EU) that are annotated based on theoretical concepts of policy design, which can be used to develop supervised machine learning approaches for scaling policy analysis.

A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19 - Nature

A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19 - Nature

Evaluation of evidence generated to test 19 proposed policy recommendations and guidance for the future.

Early-career US National Institutes of Health Researchers Vote Overwhelmingly to Form Union

Early-career US National Institutes of Health Researchers Vote Overwhelmingly to Form Union

The bargaining group will be the first ever to represent graduate students and postdocs in the US government, as they push for better pay and benefits.

US Agency Launches Experiments to Find Innovative Ways to Fund Research

US Agency Launches Experiments to Find Innovative Ways to Fund Research

The National Science Foundation explains how its 'science of science' programme will find efficiencies and support 'high-risk, high-reward' studies.