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