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2 months ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
More than half of top 50 institutions are American, with France and UK next highest
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
World’s largest public biomedical funder “cancels grant meetings”, while WHO pauses recruitment after US withdrawsAn abrupt freeze on communications, travel and hiring for federal health agencies including the National Institutes of Health by returning US president Donald Trump’s administration is causing alarm and uncertainty among scientists.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya |Emily Twinch
Trump presidency: Key appointees, as well as WHO and climate stances, worry scientific communityAs Donald Trump’s second presidential term begins with his inauguration today, scientists worldwide have sounded warnings about the impact his policies could have on science, public health, climate and research funding. Scientists are concerned about the consequences of the US pulling out of the Paris climate agreement—as it did under the first Trump administration—and the World Health Organization.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
technologyreview.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
Wheat DEWAS officially launched in 2023 with $7.3 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (now called the Gates Foundation) and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. But an earlier incarnation of the system averted disaster in 2021, when another epidemic threatened Ethiopia’s wheat fields. Early field surveys by a local agricultural research team had picked up a new strain of yellow rust.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
Sector continues a long-term growth trend, bringing jobs and growing regional economies, says reportThe US bioscience industry brings in over $3 trillion to the US economy, according to a new report.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
President-elect’s pick of lockdown sceptic Jay Bhattacharya to lead US health institutes hotly debatedUS president-elect Donald Trump’s intention to appoint Jay Bhattacharya as the next director of the National Institutes of Health continues to stir debate. Discussion around his controversial nomination to lead the NIH was reignited by an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on 1 December.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
US presidential election result sparks concern over implications for public health and climate policyWithin hours of Donald Trump winning the presidency of the United States for the second time, scientists and senior research sector figures began discussing what the next four years could bring.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
taipeitimes.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
By Shaoni Bhattacharya / The Guardian “Since the start of the space age, we’ve had a throwaway culture — a bit like plastics in the ocean,” says Nick Shave, managing director of Astroscale UK, an in-orbit servicing company headquartered in Japan. Getting a satellite into orbit around the Earth used to be a big deal. From the launch of the first, Sputnik, in 1957, as it became easier and cheaper to put satellites into space, the numbers have boomed.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya
“Since the start of the space age, we’ve had a throwaway culture – a bit like plastics in the ocean,” says Nick Shave, managing director of Astroscale UK, an in-orbit servicing company headquartered in Japan. Getting a satellite into orbit around the Earth used to be a big deal. From the launch of the first, Sputnik, in 1957, as it became easier and cheaper to put satellites into space, the numbers have boomed.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
skyatnightmagazine.com | Shaoni Bhattacharya |Iain Todd |Govert Schilling
The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope is ushering in a new era of space observation. With its tennis court-sized sunshield and 6.5m primary mirror flat-packed inside the launcher like a ship in a bottle, the James Webb Space Telescope is a formidable observing instrument. Unlike ground-based telescopes and observatories, Webb is a 'space telescope', meaning it's positioned in space, where it gets a clear view of the Universe.
