Journal Article

HOW THE WAR IN UKRAINE IS CHANGING GLOBAL SCIENCE

Abbott, Alison, Van Noorden, Richard, Irwin, Aisling, Gaind, Nisha, Tollefson, Jeff, Gibney, Elizabeth, Witze, Alexandra

2022

Overview

Since Russia invaded in February, an estimated 4,900 civilians have died in Ukraine, some 6,000 have been injured and more than 5.6 million have left for countries in Europe, creating the region's biggest refugee crisis in a generation. Many universities and science centres have been badly damaged - the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology neutron source was bombed in March andJune, for instance. \"People have been so disgusted by Russia's actions that the normal slogans of science being international, and of researchers cooperating under all circumstances, have worn thin,\" says Loren Graham, a US historian of science in Russia and emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, who has been in contact with Russian researchers. The €1.25-billion (US$1.4-billion) European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL), for example, has postponed Russian scientists' ability to access the facility's high-energy beam, which researchers use to probe the properties of matter. [...]the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), a €3.1-billion particle collider being built in Darmstadt, Germany, is likely to face delays and extra costs.

• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Subject: Antiparticles / Antiprotons / Cooperation / Costs / Free electron lasers / Laboratories / Physicists / Physics / Refugees / Science / Scientists / War