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Global leaders in science’s battle against cancer -    

Cancer research attracts billions of dollars in funding every year from governments, charities and other institutions. This helps to establish the field as a cornerstone of scientific activity in many countries, especially the United States.

Cancer research represents a large slice of overall research output in the Nature Index for many institutions, although this does not always translate to a high Share in this field. This is shown in the chart below, which plots Share against the proportion of an institution’s Nature Index output represented by cancer research for the leading 200 institutions in the topic.

Source: Nature Index. Data analysis by Bo Wu. Infographic by Simon Baker, Bec Crew and Tanner Maxwell

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Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption? - The Economist   

Winston Churchill talked about the bulldogs of Soviet power fighting under the rug, with skeletons tossed aside as a clue to who was out of favour. In modern Ukrainian politics the game is less vicious, though often just as opaque. Yuriy Nikolov, an investigative journalist, likens the practice to a scene in “The Prestige”, a thriller from 2006, in which Michael Caine’s John Cutter explains that the secret of magic is about diverting attention from the trick. “The real game is usually elsewhere,” Mr Nikolov says.

In the space of two days over the weekend, Ukraine has seen two big corruption stories make the news. At face value they show the government wresting back the initiative on reform. On September 3rd President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would replace his defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov (pictured), following months of corruption scandals at his department. A day earlier the SBU, Ukraine’s domestic security service, had detained Ihor Kolomoisky, a controversial oligarch once closely associated with the president, on suspicion of fraud and money-laundering. But there are some questions about the timing and nature of both interventions.

Mr Zelensky focused on his defence minister’s role as a brave and trusted comrade over 550 days of war. But in recognising the need for a change, the president was acknowledging that his record has been tarnished. Mr Reznikov was viewed by many, including Western partners, as a charismatic and resourceful negotiator. He was one of the inner core that stayed in Kyiv throughout the invasion despite the huge dangers. To his detractors, however, he will be remembered for two scandals, involving eggs and winter coats.

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An ambitious timetable to deliver the world’s newest fighter jet | Financial Times - FT   

In hangar number five at BAE Systems’ sprawling factory in north-west England, test pilots are putting the world’s most advanced fighter jet through its paces. The pilots have already flown more than 170 hours over 125 outings but the jet itself has not yet been built; the flights have taken place inside a bespoke simulator in the cavernous space.

The virtual testing will help to inform live trials of a supersonic prototype aircraft scheduled to fly in 2027. It will be Britain’s first combat test aircraft since the Eurofighter Typhoon almost 40 years ago. It is also a critical first step if the UK and its partners Italy and Japan are to achieve their promise to have new generation aircraft flying by 2035 as part of the trilateral Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).

Unveiled last December, GCAP is one of the most ambitious military programmes ever attempted. It merges Japan’s F-X programme with the UK and Italy’s Tempest project, with the aim of delivering a supersonic jet in roughly half the time — and therefore at significantly less cost — of previous generation aircraft such as the Typhoon.

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