We are pleased to announce Florian Schuster has joined the London Institute as a Trustee. A physics graduate, Mr Schuster is an investor and entrepreneur who will advise us on financial strategy, promote our values and raise funding. lims.ac.uk/florian-schust…

The policy prevents the NSF, one of the world’s biggest supporters of basic research, from awarding new research grants and from supplying allotted funds for existing grants. The email does not provide a reason for the freeze and says that it will last “until further notice”.

UK and India agree "ambitious and mutually beneficial" trade deal, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi says bbc.in/43hAgWK

Can we urge you to sign this petition. Accurate language - which is what sexed language is - is vital across health comms and particularly government health comms. The more accurate language we get in official comms, the more it will leak through to media coverage. Link next.

“At the beginning of the 20th century there was no branch of science in which Uncle Sam led the world. At the century’s end there was none where it did not. America’s triumphs—its economic prowess, and its technological and military might—were interwoven with that scientific

Marina von Neumann Whitman passed away on 20 May, aged 90. She had an incredibly rich and successful life, was as sharp as a tack and a lovely person to boot. Unable to attend her first-choice Princeton to do her PhD because the university did not admit women at the time, she

NEWS: The Leinweber Foundation is endowing five theoretical physics initiatives at Chicago, Berkeley, MIT, Michigan, and the IAS. This $90 million gift is among the largest ever to theoretical physics!

On Monday, 7 July, our Landau AI fellow Mikhail Burtsev explains how artificial intelligence is helping to decipher genomes in the Royal Institution’s iconic lecture theatre. lims.ac.uk/event/decoding…