Read article: Royal Society launches fellowships to support Black scientists
Pilot programme aims to address under-representation through funding and mentoring support
Read article: Percentage of disabled physicists in the UK has halved in one year, finds survey
The percentage of people with a disability is also lower in physics than it is in the chemical and biological sciences
Read article: Female PhD students miss out on chance to become inventors, finds study
Women in technical PhD programmes are given less hands-on experience in patenting and commercial science compared to their male counterparts
Read article: Delight as UK strikes deal to join the EU’s flagship Horizon Europe funding programme
The UK will also join the EU’s Copernicus Earth-observation programme but not its Euratom fusion initiative
Read article: India launches its first mission to the Sun
The Aditya-L1 craft will improve our understanding of solar activity including the solar wind and solar flares
Read article: Campus community mourns nanoscientist fatally shot at the University of North Carolina
Zijie Yan was an “outstanding professor, researcher and mentor” colleague says
Read article: Astronomers protest at International Astronomical Union’s updated code of conduct on harassment
Researchers claim that the new code offers a safe space for harassers
Read article: US announces $1.2bn pilot programme to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The two projects are expected to be the world’s largest direct air capture projects when built
Read article: Russia’s Luna 25 Moon probe crashes on landing
If successful, it would have been the country’s first lunar landing in almost half a century
Read article: ‘Room-temperature superconductor’ LK-99 fails replication tests
Independent groups find no evidence for room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductivity in a modified form of lead apatite
