Staff members and students protest outside the Lipsius building at Leiden University in the Netherlands in December 2021.Credit: Marc de Haan In April, staff members in the Bancroft building at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) received an e-mail telling them that sensors were going to be installed in their offices. Stuart Grieve, a geographer …
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Wednesday briefing: Why Britain needs more black science professors | Science
First Edition Officially there are no black chemistry or physics professors in the UK, which many scientists say is all the data needed to conclude that UK science is institutionally racist. The Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy, which aims to promote excellence in science, has set out its mission to change this with …
Scientists give verdict on Harvard professor’s claim of finding materials under ocean from outside our Solar System
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter A Harvard scientist’s recent claim that strange spherical materials of interstellar origin have been found from under the ocean is “not convincing” yet and remains “inconsistent”, according to scientists. Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at …