All Academia articles – Page 8
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NewsWork on why scientists seem to enjoy licking rocks scoops chemistry Ig Nobel
Necrobotics, defecation analysis and boring lectures among other topics honoured in spoof annual award ceremony
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NewsLarge-scale hydrogen storage must be kick-started now to reach net zero
Royal Society calls for action to solve problem of intermittent renewables with huge expansion in energy storage
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NewsDiamond Light Source upgrade receives £500 million funding boost
The modernisation programme will turn the facility into a fourth generation synchrotron with five new beamlines
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NewsHorizon deal looks to have come too late for 2023 winners of EU grants in UK
European Research Council award winners still face unenviable choice of deciding between their grant and their UK institution
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OpinionThe UK has rejoined Horizon Europe, but the delays have been costly
The deal to rejoin the EU’s science programme makes sense for the country and it’s well overdue
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NewsUK rejoins Horizon Europe, Copernicus satellite programme but opts against Euratom return
Scientific organisations overjoyed by news that returns chance to secure major collaborative grants
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NewsChina considers stripping degrees from academics who misuse AI
Current and former university students in China shown to have used artificial intelligence tools to write dissertations could get degrees revoked
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NewsRussia and Belarus uninvited to Nobel prize ceremonies
Backlash prompts Nobel Foundation to backtrack on allowing Russian and Belarusian representatives
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NewsIs scientific fraud getting worse in chemistry papers?
A new study shows an increase in chemistry papers retracted for fraud and experts say scientific publishing is compounding the problem
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NewsUNC Chapel Hill PhD student charged with killing his academic adviser
Applied physical sciences professor Zijie Yan fatally shot on campus
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NewsEnergy costs and supply shortages hit European research infrastructure
The Covid-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine have impacted work across Europe’s largest research facilities
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NewsScientists hope to illuminate unknown human proteins with new public database
‘Unknome’ database contains thousands of understudied proteins
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NewsHungarian scientists left in the lurch as government’s battle with EU drags on
Backsliding on democratic principles led to Orbán’s government being suspended from EU research programmes
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OpinionNavigating the literature torrent
It’s humanly impossible to filter and read everything worthwhile – let’s embrace assistance
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FeatureHow to prepare for a lab catastrophe
Nina Notman looks at steps scientists can take to better protect the content of their labs from floods, fires and other disasters
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NewsScientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace
Researchers of Chinese descent are leaving the US 75% faster since state-backed espionage investigations began in 2018
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NewsChemical weapons expert forces UK government to back down on blacklisting policy
Guidance that has seen experts blocked from speaking at government conferences over criticism of policies to be reviewed
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NewsStrikes spread across US as postdocs and other researchers fight for better pay and conditions
The success of high-profile strikes at the University of California system has sparked a movement that is spreading across the country
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NewsStanford president resigns after independent review finds problems with his research
Marc Tessier-Lavigne cleared of fraud or falsification of data, but failures on correcting the scientific record made his position untenable
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NewsUK committee makes recommendations to improve research integrity in first report
Artificial intelligence and other new technologies under assessment for the risks and opportunities they provide