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Three U.S. scientists won the 2017 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves, ripples in space and time foreseen by Albert Einstein a century ago.
International mobility and collaboration are linked to stronger research.
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.
1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.
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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.
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.
The G7 countries have agreed to explore ways of cooperating to fund research and innovation activities.
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.
Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.
An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, who led the famed LIGO experiment.
Understanding the potential effects of requiring that grantees publish their peer-reviewed research in open access journals.
They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.
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.
Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
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.
There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.
Recently, I have worked with a number of professional services firms committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. By Iris Bohnet.
Three U.S. scientists share the 2017 award.
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.
