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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Method to Visualise Biomolecules
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.
Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People
1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.
Collaborative Software Development Made Easy
Save time and protect critical code with 'continuous integration' services.
Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub
The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines.
LIGO's Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish Win Physics Nobel
The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.
G7 Plans Joint Research Funding
The G7 countries have agreed to explore ways of cooperating to fund research and innovation activities.
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
Europe's Joint Research Centre, Although Improving, Must Think Bigger
Europe's Joint Research Centre, Although Improving, Must Think Bigger
External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.
Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review?
Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.
AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick
An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
Ripples in Space: U.S. Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, who led the famed LIGO experiment.
Estimated Effects of Implementing an Open Access Policy for Grantees at a Private Foundation
Estimated Effects of Implementing an Open Access Policy for Grantees at a Private Foundation
Understanding the potential effects of requiring that grantees publish their peer-reviewed research in open access journals.
The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.
Why Can Elsevier Keep Insulting Scholars without Consequences?
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.
Ethics of Internet Research Trigger Scrutiny
Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.
Support Science by Publishing in Scientific Society Journals
While few will disagree with their motives, the authors provide no roadmap for scientific societies. It may be time to learn from the successes of commercial rivals.
Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care
Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care
There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.
Tackling ‘the Thin File’ That Can Prevent a Promotion
Recently, I have worked with a number of professional services firms committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. By Iris Bohnet.
Medicine Nobel Prize Goes to Circadian Rhythm Researchers
Three U.S. scientists share the 2017 award.
Body Clock Scientists Win Nobel
Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
How Do We Define the Policy Impact of Public Health Research?
A systematic review
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