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ViewScience academies launch their agenda for G7 summit

Royal Society and partners urge action on health data, biodiversity and reducing greenhouse gases

ViewUniversities condemn anti-Asian racism after Atlanta shootings

Fatal shootings, including of women of Asian descent, prompt outcry against ‘escalating’ racist attacks

ViewUS news roundup: 19-25 March

This week: backing for an NSF bill and a call to ease international students’ return

ViewBiden filling top posts, with picks for space and health roles

Praise for nominated Nasa administrator, while health secretary narrowly confirmed in Senate vote

ViewInternational group to analyse pharmaceutical company mergers

Regulators will look into whether mergers cause higher drug prices, lower innovation or anticompetitive conduct

ViewUS news roundup: 12-18 March

This week: a big publishing deal, executive action on gender and a boost for workers

ViewBipartisan bill aims to broaden base for US technical education

Bill would direct National Science Foundation to create schemes to help more colleges win funding

ViewHigh hopes for new head of US environment agency

Democrats cheer confirmation of Michael Regan, praising his climate and social justice record

ViewBiden appoints head of USAID Africa bureau

Travis Adkins is former African and security studies lecturer

ViewChina and US host 25% of world’s doctoral candidates, report shows

UK Council for Graduate Education points to ‘huge imbalances’ in doctoral education across the globe

ViewPandemic ‘may roll back’ US progress on research equality

Fears for female and minority researchers as national academies’ report details unequal impacts of Covid-19

ViewUS news roundup: 5-11 March

This week: campus mental health tops university concerns again and NIH head apologises for racism

ViewUS urged to boost funding of artificial intelligence R&D 32-fold

Academics, industry and officials say $1bn annual public funding should be $32bn by 2026

ViewChina ‘set to overtake US as UK’s largest R&D partner’

China and UK collaborated on 16,267 research papers in 2019—up from 750 in 2000

ViewConcerns deepen over amount of pandemic relief for US research

Limited research funding in coronavirus stimulus measures leads to cross-party fears of lasting consequences

ViewUniversities suggest federal monitoring to diversify innovation

Institutional tracking of inventors from minority backgrounds needs national benchmarks, universities tell patent office

ViewUS news roundup: 26 February to 4 March

This week: National Science Foundation plans, an anti-harassment network and space defence methods

ViewPandemic ‘could undercut financing of US research support’

Analysis finds stability of external grants ‘masks concerns’ over impact of Covid-19 on research offices

ViewUS news roundup: 19-25 February

This week: a Mars landing, a poor review for the EPA, and federal emissions rules

ViewUS advised to ‘aggressively’ back fusion energy

Two reports call for use of industry partnerships to deploy fusion energy technologies

ViewHow a UK firm put a Covid-19 vaccine in a pill

Wayne Channon, head of iosBio, on starting with Innovate UK money before turning to America

ViewWhite House starts development of climate technology funder

Funding agency promised as working group formed to marshal government efforts on low-carbon technology

ViewUS news roundup: 12-18 February

This week: Republicans aggrieved over Covid-19 relief, science committee’s female chair, and foetal tissue research

ViewUS agency removes toxicity assessment, citing interference

Environment agency risk analysis for industrial chemical retracted after White House decree

ViewDon’t burn trees for energy, researchers urge world leaders

Governments asked to end subsidies for burning wood, in light of climate change

ViewScientists seek hearing on ‘racial profiling’ by US federal agencies

Federal Bureau of Investigation points to leader’s past insistence that Chinese-Americans are not its focus

ViewUS news roundup: 5-11 February

This week: Yale University admissions and a Nasa climate adviser

ViewCourt overturns US environment agency’s ‘secret science’ rule

Rule limited use of unpublished scientific evidence in Environmental Protection Agency policymaking

ViewUS lawmakers under pressure to support research amid pandemic

Congress sent evidence of dire impacts of pandemic on researchers ‘ignored’ by Covid-19 relief packages

ViewUniversity probed on funds for Biden Center denies China sway

University of Pennsylvania says centre named after US president received no foreign funding