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
Read article: Oak Ridge National Laboratory appoints Stephen Streiffer as its next director
John Sarrao will replace Streiffer as director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Read article: Theorists are good peer reviewers – but tend to prefer significance over rigour, study finds
The results suggest that – in theoretical physics at least – referees tend to rank rigour lower
Read article: Researchers issue warning over the increasing carbon footprint of computational science
The researchers argue that education and research are needed to raise awareness and drive innovation
