Funding issues and questions over how the agency will operate are set to delay its 2023 implementation date
Read article: Plans for African Space Agency jeopardized by lack of progress
Travel restrictions and obstacles facing collaboration discussed at the American Physical Society’s annual leadership meeting
Read article: Collaboration and competition on the agenda as leading physicists meet in Washington
Some £300m will be invested over five years in the mathematical sciences
Read article: UK unveils post-Brexit investment and visa changes to boost science
About 80% of Chinese scientists who have gone abroad to study or work in the previous decade have returned home
Read article: Chinese researchers returning home in greater numbers
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
