Read article: Cancer Research UK launches biotherapeutics powerhouse
Cancer Research UK is creating a global centre-of-excellence for cancer biotherapeutics research and treatment in the City of London
Read article: Publishers look to improve diversity in peer review
Report by IOP Publishing finds that men are disproportionately invited to peer review research papers in its journals compared with women
Read article: US societies join forces in $10m drive to tackle diversity
New programme aims to boost the number of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in science
Read article: NASA must fund major exoplanet mission top US scientists say
Craft would aim to directly image Earth-like planets around stars similar to our Sun
Read article: China unveils blueprint for huge underground ‘Higgs factory’
Conceptual design report calls for a 100 km circular collider to study the Higgs boson in unprecedented detail
Read article: Jocelyn Bell Burnell to support diversity in physics with $3m winnings from major prize
New fund will be set up to support women and people from ethnic minorities
Read article: NASA’s next-generation asteroid telescope set for South Africa
Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System to expand to the southern hemisphere
Read article: Green light for South African radio telescope
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real Time Analysis Experiment will study dark energy and fast radio bursts when fully operational in 2020
Read article: Call made for Germany’s Helmholtz Association to boost diversity
An evaluation of the association’s 18 research centres has found that only 19% of full professorships are held by women
Read article: NASA launches Parker Solar Probe mission to ‘touch’ the Sun
Craft will fly seven times closer to the Sun’s surface than any previous mission
