Read article: Optical telecoms pioneer and Nobel laureate Charles Kao dies at 84
Electrical engineer shared 2009 physics prize for developing technology that made the Internet possible
Read article: Isolated female students more likely to drop out of PhD programmes
Study finds that lone women in a PhD cohort were up to 16% less likely to graduate than their male counterparts
Read article: MILabs’ VECTor6 awarded ‘Commercial Innovation of the Year’ at WMIC
The VECTor6 preclinical imaging system with broadband photon tomography receives innovation award at the World Molecular Imaging Congress
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
