Students at New College of Florida, Sarasota, protest last year at plans, now in place, to change the university’s programmes on diversity, equity and inclusion.Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP/Alamy A survey of faculty members working in US southern states shows that a significant majority frequently witness or experience political interference that affects morale and is causing many […]
Aerial view of the 2023 exposure in Area I at Shakhi Kora. Credit: Antiquityhttps://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.189 Excavations at a 4th millennium BCE settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan have revealed new clues about the origins of the world’s earliest governing institutions, suggesting they emerged partly from their ability to provide large-scale meals, potentially as payment for labor. However, the […]
Between 2022 and 2023, Australia recorded the steepest drop in adjusted Share (9.4%) among the top 20 countries in the Nature Index, signalling trouble for its research sector. For the first time since 2018, Australia dropped from 10th place to 12th in 2023, overtaken by India and Italy. These charts highlight the strongest institutional players […]
Due in part to strong institutional collaborations and industry presence, the United States has maintained its lead in health sciences, with the Boston metropolitan area (MA) taking the top spot with a Share of 676.43. However, the Massachusetts capital — which is home to numerous biotech companies, leading universities, and more than 20 hospitals — […]
Ranga Dias is no longer employed as a researcher at the University of Rochester in New York, but continues to work at his company nearby, Unearthly Materials.Credit: Lauren Petracca/New York Times/Redux/eyevine Ranga Dias, a once bright star in the field of superconductivity who has been enmeshed in a public scandal for the past two years, […]
Community support groups help researchers to write successful grant proposals.Credit: Virojt Changyencham/Getty Chemist David Sanabria-Ríos was no stranger to receiving the cold shoulder from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Several times, he had applied for funding for his research on synthesizing small, new molecules at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico Metropolitan […]
Early-careers researchers in China need highly sought-after grants to progress in their career.Credit: Xinhua/Shutterstock Scientists in many countries face intense competition for research funding, but the situation in China is particularly fierce, say researchers, especially for those in their early-career. To address this, one of the country’s largest funders of basic research, the National Natural […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their work on why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations. While announcing the award, Jakob Svensson, the chairman […]
Institutions and individuals must treat Black women with respect.Credit: Julian Guadalupe/Alamy Black women have long flagged an insidious issue they have to contend with: misogynoir, a combination of sexism and anti-Black racism that often manifests as a lack of respect and impedes their prospects. The data are clear, the problem is pervasive, including in academia. […]
