Report recommends Ireland becoming an associate member that would allow the country’s scientists to have access to formal training and become CERN staff members
Read article: Committee urges Ireland to join CERN particle-physics lab
Nicol Caplin delves into the dangers of contaminating pristine environments beyond the Earth
Read article: Anything to declare?
Report by the National Task Force on the Rule of Law and Democracy says that the integrity of US government research is under siege
Read article: ‘Crisis point’ reached as Trump administration weakens safeguards for government research
Ian Randall reviews The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space by Peter Ward
Read article: To boldly go
National Labor Relations Board aims to reverse a 2016 decision that allowed paid graduate students to unionize
Read article: US seeks to bar graduate students at private universities who get paid for work from unionizing
Ten Nobel-prize-winning physicists join thousands signing a letter that calls for a dedicated European commissioner for education and research to be reinstated
Read article: Nobel laureates join call for European Commission to reinstate top science post
The American government’s efforts to strengthen national and economic security is a threat to scientific research, say 60 societies
Read article: US scientific societies warn security policies pose a danger to science
PhD student Boris Ivetić was arrested after confronting Croatia’s science minister about alleged corruption at the University of Zagreb’s natural sciences faculty
Read article: Jailed physicist released following Croatian corruption protest
Workers who cleaned supercomputers at the lab using fluids containing trichloroethylene claim it is has severely damaged their health
Read article: Technicians sue Brookhaven National Laboratory over carcinogenic cleanser use
Fernando Fabián Rosales-Ortega explains how budget cuts in Mexico are impacting science
Read article: The personal impact of Mexico’s budget crisis
