Read article: Major US and European labs join forces to tackle climate change
Top research centres announce they will co-ordinate climate-related research as well as share ways to reduce their carbon footprint
Read article: Early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic penalized women in academia
Despite a jump in article submissions at the start of the pandemic, most of those increases came from men, a study suggests
Read article: NASA’s Lucy mission launches to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
The $1bn craft will carry out several fly-bys to study these so-called ‘fossils’ of the solar system
Read article: UK announces potential sites for prototype fusion energy plant
Five sites have been shortlisted as a potential home for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production
Read article: NASA hit by resignation over its handling of investigation into telescope renaming
NASA branded 'pathetic' over its response to calls to rename the James Webb Space Telescope
Read article: Scientific fields that are awarded prizes see subsequent research boon, finds study
Productivity of scientists working in a field that has recently won an award increases rapidly over the following decade
Read article: Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi win the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics
Trio share award for work on complex systems
Read article: New dawn for South African radio astronomy as major telescope nears completion
Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array will observe large-scale structures during the early universe
Read article: UK government sets out plan to ‘unleash’ nation’s space sector
National Space Strategy aims to support space industry and build collaborations with other countries
Read article: Amateur astronomers capture flash from asteroid impacting Jupiter
Event is thought to have been caused by a body tens of metres across
