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Women in High Pressure, a community tackling gender imbalance in high-pressure research, is driving inclusion, visibility and systemic change — so every scientist can thrive, even under pressure.

Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts expose the need for science education research.

Geopolitical tensions pose a threat to international collaborations and the democratization of science.

Heliophysics focuses on understanding the different processes in the solar system and the influence of the Sun on space and planets. Collaboration between subfields of heliophysics and different communities needs to improve to advance the field.

Physics is amazing and transformational. But for far too long the people most likely to benefit from its opportunity and wonder have been too narrowly defined.

Thousands of Iranians study at German universities every year, but many struggle to integrate into German academia. Here, we offer some advice.

AI needs to develop more solid assumptions, falsifiable hypotheses, and rigorous experimentation.

Mathematical proofs of black hole physics are becoming too complex even for specialists.

Invest in fostering a culture of collaboration to help break down barriers between disciplines.

Multidisciplinary residential programmes and workshops help advance all the fields involved.

Creating a common culture and language for successful collaboration across disciplines benefits both researchers and scientific discovery.

The lone genius narrative is harmful to science and will not help humans settle in space.

Bibliometric evaluation causes competition and stalls scientific progress. We need to abandon it and encourage collaboration.