All Europe articles – Page 15
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News
Fourth UK science minister appointed in just two years as Chris Skidmore returns
Post has been hit by resignations over handling of Brexit
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News
Denmark becomes first nation to outlaw fluorinated chemicals in food packaging
Danish government acts on controversial chemicals saying it can no longer wait for the EU
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Review
Exhibition: Perfection
Dublin’s Science Gallery invites you to go and question your own definition of ‘perfect’
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News
Mixed reception for German open access deal with Springer Nature
Springer Nature has reached an open access publishing deal with 700 German research universities, but it faces some pushback
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Research would be a ‘casualty’ if English higher education review acted on, Lords warn
Many other areas could suffer too including student lab practicals and infrastructure maintenance
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Immigration reforms unveiled to attract leading scientists to the UK
Long-awaited changes welcomed but the spectre of a no-deal Brexit has the science community on edge
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New law spurs discussions on future direction of French research funding
Unknowns surrounding research law being drafted by government has made unions and science organisations anxious
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Serbia passes controversial science reforms to modernise research
Doubts remain over the government’s decision to overhaul the current grants system
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Business
Austria becomes first EU country to fully outlaw glyphosate
A ban of the controversial herbicide from 2020 has been approved by the Austrian government
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Podcast
Cyclopropane
Chemistry’s tastiest bonds for an explosive anaesthetic that was as useful as it was dangerous
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Business
BASF to axe 6000 jobs worldwide
5% cut to global staff part of a drastic restructuring to simplify corporate structure
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UK government announces £91 million increase for university research funding
Half of the money will go to universities rather than specific projects
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Opinion
Does the higher education review augur well for universities?
Political winds are buffeting higher education once more
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‘Build a bold vision for UK research,’ scientists urge next prime minister
Academies, charities and universities unite in appeal to Conservative leadership hopefuls to invest in science
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Podcast
2C psychedelics
A class of hallucinogenic phenethylamines, explored by the 'godfather of psychedelics' Alexander Shulgin and sadly implicated in a tragedy at a 2017 music festival
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News
Ambitious Irish climate plan aims for zero-carbon economy by 2050
Targets floated for one million electric cars and 70% renewable energy by 2030
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Switching UK’s gas network to hydrogen perfectly possible, report finds
Repurposing the natural gas network would cut out country’s biggest source of carbon emissions
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Missing out on €100bn EU fund after Brexit would be ‘major blow to British science’
UK needs to secure access to Europe’s multi-million-pound research fund as soon as possible, according to Nobel laureate Paul Nurse
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Hungarian academy fears for its scientific freedom over draft law
Scientific institution condemns government’s ‘extraordinarily harmful’ plan to gain more control over research programmes