Credit: David Goddard/Getty Can commercial funding fill a £42 million (US$56 million) a year hole in the finances of some of the UK’s most iconic laboratories and science facilities? That is the challenge facing sites run by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which funds the Diamond Light Source (the national synchrotron facility
Entropy is a of the most maligned and misunderstood concepts in science. You may have heard it defined as the “amount of disorder” in a system. And the second law of thermodynamics says that the entropy of a closed system always increases with time. So you might think, why should you clean your office if
The four Fields Medal recipients are, from left, Hong Wang, Jacob Tsimerman, John Pardon and Yu Deng.Credit: Simons Foundation Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang won the 2026 Fields Medal, one of the most coveted awards in their discipline. Their names were revealed today at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)
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Some researchers who use the LaTeX markup language for typesetting unknowingly make private information public.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature Nearly all of the nearly three million articles available on the arXiv preprint server contain details that the authors never wanted to share, according to a new study. The study, uploaded to arXiv in April and presented at
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