El investigador estadounidense, pionero en comprender los efectos del cambio climático en los mares, alerta de los riesgos que suponen los gobiernos negacionistas y defiende la cooperación internacional

Quería ser rockero pero terminó doctorándose en Astrofísica en la Armenia que asistía al hundimiento de la URSS. Aunque trabaja en los observatorios de Tenerife y La Palma, viajará a Teruel para ver el eclipse solar. En Canarias fundó junto con Brian May, guitarrista de Queen, el festival Starmus, una cita única que mezcla ciencia y música por la que han pasado figuras como Neil Armstrong, Alexei Leonov, Jane Goodall o Brian Eno

La incapacidad de gestionar efectivamente el agua en tiempos de abundancia ha redundado en el racionamiento del servicio a la primera señal de escasez

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Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.

Spanish National Research Council, established under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, has published the stories of some 500 researchers and support staff purged after civil war

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Nature - New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

“A republic, if you can keep it.” As the USA commemorates 250 years since the signing of The Declaration of Independence, the “if” in Benjamin Franklin's quip resonates more than ever. The present US ...

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Stand up for Science

Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.

In a debate that has been building for years, a growing coalition of reformers has concluded that the research project grant (RPG) approach used by many science funders in the United States and based ...