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In our new report, Dynamics of data science skills, we recognise that there needs to be a focus on developing people like you, with the knowledge to make sense of the volume and complexity of data.

Dr Justyn Maund, reflects on his experience of working part-time in the Department for International Development (DFID) Research and Evidence division over five months.

On 12 September 2018 the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering will be launching a report on the features and prospects of greenhouse gas removal technologies for meeting climate goals in the UK and globally.

Last month’s International Conference on Machine Learning brought together over 5000 researchers to share recent developments and novel approaches in machine learning.

When reading the words deep sea mining, what goes through your mind? Maybe it’s the first time that you have come across these words and wonder: what is it all about?

Last Friday (23 March) the UK Government and the EU agreed the terms of a Brexit transition deal – this sets out how the UK and EU will work together from 29 March 2019 until 31 December 2020.

When I tell people that I went to COP23 they usually reply with a polite but slightly confused smile.

91TV has kicked off a joint project with the Wellcome Trust that will convene UK and EU science leaders to develop a shared vision for an ambitious, close and achievable future agreement on research and innovation.

We are surrounded by data, and with new technologies we can collect and share more of it than ever before. This creates many opportunities for new uses of data, for example in healthcare and education, and new applications, such as self-driving cars, which may involve the use of data by intelligent machines.

Biology Letters has just published its latest Special Feature on ‘Putting fossils in trees: combining morphology, time, and molecules to estimate phylogenies and divergence times’.

In the first of our series of blogposts about machine learning in research, we heard from Dr Neale Gibson, who told us about how machine learning is being put to use in astronomy research.

How can science policy serve society? From 16 to 20 February, scientists, policymakers, and members of the public gathered in Boston for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).