Scientists in the United States are concerned that their government’s crackdown on foreign interference at universities is driving away scientists of Chinese descent.
Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s most prominent academic institution, has been ordered to pay a fine for biosafety lapses after a research assistant at its Genomics Research Center contracted COVID-19 on the job in late 2021.
A detailed analysis of satellite and remote-sensing data has uncovered poor conditions at the Wai Khar jade mine in Myanmar, where a landslide last July killed more than 170 people.