Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture the faint light from nearby galaxy haloes. ...

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Kommenden Mittwoch wollen die Rektorinnen und Rektoren am Ring demonstrieren. Aus Protest steigen sie auch aus dem Hochschulstrategieprozess des Wissenschaftsressorts aus

Only nearby objects appear to the naked eye. With telescopes of all types, especially in space, we've smashed those records many times over.

On cosmic scales, only dark matter (or something equivalent) gives us the Universe we observe. Now, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect agrees.

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Is dark energy evolving with at least 99.99% confidence? Despite the quality of recent data, scientists have every reason to be skeptical.

A half century after the discovery of Hawking radiation, we are still dealing with the quantum puzzle it exposed.

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...

"You can't have a cut of that scale and not expect to see a massive impact."

Projected 560,000 satellites could overwhelm future observatories. Astronomers worry satellite trails will mar every view of the Universe.

The seeds of cosmic structure that were planted back during the Big Bang grew into the cosmic web we see today. What is it telling us?

While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.

With the observation of SN 2025wny, a lensed superluminous supernova, astronomy's future comes into sharp, exciting focus.

Mehr Grundlagenforschung in der Medizin, der Quantenforschung und der Kosmologie – der FWF richtet zum Ausbau der Spitzenforschung in Österreich drei weitere Spezialforschungsbereiche ein.

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