Research

A new report throws light on the damaging outcomes when scientists ignore gender in their research

EU membership is overwhelmingly positive for our institutes say university heads, as new campaign to protect £1.2B per annum of European research funding gets into gear this week

Fresh data from the European Commission shows there is an increase in new female graduates. But a lack of women in leadership roles is a continuing problem, says Curt Rice, who leads Norway's committee on gender balance in research

The University of Luxembourg and the Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER (formerly CEPS/Instead) are to create and fund four joint professorships.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn to investigate why male academics outnumber females in senior higher education posts in Ireland

More than 850,000 amateurs across the UK have contributed observations to a volunteer data collection programme at Imperial College London. Governments could capture such enthusiasm to promote environmental protection, says David Slawson of the Open Air Laboratories project

Animal rights groups demand the European Commission scraps animal testing in research

Cambridge computer scientists have established a new gold standard for open research, in order to make scientific results more robust and reliable.

A group of scientists led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia will transport the world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector across the Atlantic Ocean from CERN to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Researchers in Finland and Germany have unveiled the existence of a new pseudoparticle that helps explain the conversion of sunlight into energy.