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Plants survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid by duplicating genomes

Ghent, 8 May 2025 – When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In a new study in Cell,…
Ghent, 8 May 2025 – When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many…
Ghent, 8 May 2025 – When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a…
Ghent, 8 May 2025 – When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet…
Ghent, 8 May 2025 – When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian…
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EURAXESS North America info session on ERC grants: Funding for excellent frontier research

The ERC and EURAXESS North America organise an online webinar on ERC funding opportunities for researchers based in USA and Canada.This free webinar is directed at postdoctoral researchers and established researchers (PhD plus two years' experience)…
The ERC and EURAXESS North America organise an online webinar on ERC funding opportunities for researchers based in USA and Canada.This free webinar is directed at postdoctoral…
The ERC and EURAXESS North America organise an online webinar on ERC funding opportunities for researchers based in USA and Canada.This free webinar…
The ERC and EURAXESS North America organise an online webinar on ERC funding opportunities for researchers based in USA and Canada.This free webinar is directed at…
The ERC and EURAXESS North America organise an online webinar on ERC funding opportunities for researchers based in USA and…
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Commission appoints leading researchers to identify future ERC Scientific Council members

The European Commission has appointed the new members of the ERC Identification Committee.This independent committee plays a key role in identifying and recommending appointments of future members of the ERC Scientific Council.
The European Commission has appointed the new members of the ERC Identification Committee.This independent committee plays a key role in identifying and recommending appointments of…
The European Commission has appointed the new members of the ERC Identification Committee.This independent committee plays a key role in identifying…
The European Commission has appointed the new members of the ERC Identification Committee.This independent committee plays a key role in identifying and recommending…
The European Commission has appointed the new members of the ERC Identification Committee.This independent committee plays a…
Phosphorus, politics and water for a more resilient world

Phosphorus, politics and water for a more resilient world

ERC frontier research at work in science diplomacy When scientists follow their curiosity, they rarely picture their work turning up in policy briefings or on negotiation tables. Yet ERC Synergy Grants projects, which bring together teams of…
Who controls the science of the high seas?

Who controls the science of the high seas?

When diplomats finalised the UN’s landmark BBNJ treaty on high-sea biodiversity, it was widely hailed as a triumph for marine conservation. For Alice Vadrot, it also reveals how science and diplomacy have become inseparable and how knowledge itself…
Hashtags and handshakes: diplomacy in the age of platforms

Hashtags and handshakes: diplomacy in the age of platforms

Diplomacy has absorbed digital platforms into its rituals - while facing new risks, new power struggles and new geopolitical fault lines. Rebecca Adler-Nissen explores how diplomats and tech companies navigate this new world, turning science…
Science diplomacy: from utopia to pragmatism

Science diplomacy: from utopia to pragmatism

The growing fragility of multilateralism is forcing new ways of handling conflicts and shared global challenges, and science diplomacy is set to play an increasingly critical role, writes Sir Peter Gluckman.While the current conflicts in Ukraine,…
A world of data in a few hands

A world of data in a few hands

Drawing on the ERC-funded research project NEWORLDatA, Simone Turchetti explains why EU science diplomacy cannot ignore global data inequality. The European Framework for Science Diplomacy aims to transform international research into a driving…
Research Diplomacy in action: the debate on a United Ireland

Research diplomacy in action: the debate on a united Ireland

The renewed, post-Brexit, debate on possible referendums on a united Ireland is a good example of research diplomacy in action, writes John Doyle. Faced with an unanticipated and highly sensitive constitutional question, researchers mobilised across…
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Editorial - From curiosity to global responsibility

International collaboration has always been an integral part of the work of scientists. Science thrives when people, institutions and governments share ideas, data and resources across borders.Acting on this knowledge has become much more…