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The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015) will be launched in 2015. Aimed at raising global awareness of how light-based technologies can provide solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture and health, this UNESCO-led initiative will also be an opportunity to celebrate the work of the 10th century scientist Ibn Al-Haytham.

Pope Francis has moved one of his predecessors closer to sainthood, beatifying Pope Paul VI in a Mass on the last day of the meeting of bishops and church leaders in Rome.

The public are being asked to help in conducting, designing and funding research about archaeology, history and heritage.

Just as it seemed the Roman Catholic Church might ease its stance on homosexuality, bishops from around the world removed language doing just that from a new Vatican document.

Antonio ViscidoThird UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries (Florence)

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Research Councils UK (RCUK) are the first research funders in Europe to implement a single system for gathering details of research outcomes across all research disciplines. The harmonised approach launched last week, with 30,000 RCUK funded researchers being invited to register with the new system over the coming weeks.