Kenya eyes locations for the country’s first observatory
Preferred sites to house an optical telescope include Mount Nyiro and Mount Kulal
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Parenthood drives women out of science, US survey reveals
Study finds that 43% of new mothers had left a science-based career following their first child
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Commercial partnership harnesses graphene to boost access to safe drinking water
The UK’s National Graphene Institute joins forces with LifeSaver to create a new generation of market-ready water filters
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US societies join forces to tackle sexual harassment in science
Consortium will allow societies and institutions to create common approaches and principles to tackle sexual and gender harassment in science
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Climate scientists share Tyler Prize
$200,000 award goes to Michael Mann and Warren Washington
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Physics societies warn of ‘irrecoverable damage’ from European open-access plan
European Physical Society and the Institute of Physics urge against the ‘rushed’ implementation of Plan S
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LIGO upgrade to allow ‘almost daily’ detection of gravitational waves
When operational by 2025 the observatory, dubbed aLIGO+, will be twice as sensitive to gravitational waves
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Avoid large groups to be a disruptive scientist
Study find that as teams grow from one to 50 members there is a significant drop in how “disruptive” the work it produces is
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UK could lose almost 50% of European funding in a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, warns report
Subcommittee of the House of Lords says that replacing lost European funding from the Horizon 2020 programme represents a “formidable” challenge
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US materials science faces resource threat, warns panel
Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls on America to develop a national strategy in materials science
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