Read article: South African robotic telescope to begin search for the afterglow of cosmic events
The BOOTES6 optical telescope will measure the brightness of transient sources when it starts up in mid-July
Read article: Women less likely to be included as authors on scientific papers, finds study
Effect seen at every stage of a woman’s career and may help to account for differences in the observed output of male and female scientists
Read article: White heterosexual men have systematic advantages in science, finds study
An analysis of survey data has found that white able-bodied heterosexual men are uniquely privileged and experience a wide range of advantages at work
Read article: Gaia releases most detailed maps of the Milky Way ever taken
Third data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission is one of the richest sets of published astronomical information
Read article: Citations in science are biased towards a handful of nations – and the gap is growing
Study reveals huge "citation gap", which could worsen the geographical inequality of science
Read article: Nobel-prize-winning nuclear physicist Ben Roy Mottelson dies aged 95
Mottelson determined that certain nuclei could have asymmetrical shapes
Read article: China Initiative continues to prosecute scientists with links to China
A federal jury in Illinois has found mathematician Mingqing Xiao guilty of failing to report a Chinese bank account to tax authorities
Read article: Netherlands invests €1.1bn in the photonic-chip industry
The cash will be used to create hundreds of photonic start-up companies and scale up photonic-chip production
Read article: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gears up for Run 3
Engineers will now begin increasing the luminosity before first collisions in June
Read article: Fusion community mourns death of ITER boss Bernard Bigot aged 72
ITER deputy director Eisuke Tada takes over the French-based fusion project while the ITER Council searches for a long-term successor
