A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia. Curt Rice looks at the reasons why and warns that universities’ survival is at risk Why young women are rejecting academic research careers Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Young women scientists leave academia in far greater numbers than…
Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make sense. by: Natalie Wolchover May 24, 2013 print Is the universe natural or do we live in an atypical bubble in a multiverse? Recent results at the Large Hadron Collider have forced many physicists to confront the latter possibility. (Illustration: Giovanni…
Dear President, Dear Ministers, I would like to thank all delegations, and in particular Minister Sherlock and his team, for their continued efforts over the last five months on the Horizon 2020 package. We have now entered a decisive phase in the negotiations. The different components of Horizon 2020 have been thoroughly discussed between representatives…
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