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The Top 10 Scientific Surprises of Science News' First 100 Years
In the 100 years since Science News started reporting on it, science has offered up plenty of unexpected discoveries.
America's Top Colleges
America's Top Colleges
The First Time A Public School Is Number One.
The Tangled History of MRNA Vaccines
Hundreds of scientists had worked on mRNA vaccines for decades before the coronavirus pandemic brought a breakthrough.
Sorry, a Coronavirus Infection Might Not Be Enough to Protect You
Anyone who'd rather have COVID-19 than get vaccinated is taking two gambles: that immunity will stick around, and that symptoms won't.
Scientists Find Evidence of Humans Making Clothes 120,000 Years Ago
Tools and bones in Moroccan cave could be some of earliest evidence of the hallmark human behaviour.
Politics Will Be Poorer Without Angela Merkel's Scientific Approach
All World Languages in One Visualization, By Native Speakers
This stunning visualization breaks down all the major world languages, based on their total native speakers and country of origin.
Biology Must Generate Ideas As Well As Data
Data should be a means to knowledge, not an end in themselves.
Genuine Open Access to Academic Books Requires Collective Solutions
This post argues that for academic books to be genuinely open, an emphasis should be placed on collective funding models that limit the prospect of new barriers to access being erected through the imposition of expensive book processing charges (BPCs).
Expect Less of the Scientific Paper
Make science more reliable by placing the burden of replicability on the community, not on individual laboratories.
Winners Of The 2022 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced
Winners Of The 2022 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors today announced the winners of the 10th annual Breakthrough Prizes, awarding a total of $15.75 million to an esteemed group of laureates and early-career scientists.
Creating What We Seek to Measure - How to Understand the Performative Aspect of Impact Evaluation?
Creating What We Seek to Measure - How to Understand the Performative Aspect of Impact Evaluation?
This post draws on a recent analysis of different impact evaluation tools to explore how they constitute and direct conceptions of research impact.
Preprint Advocates Must Also Fight for Research Integrity
Efforts to share research with the public must include mechanisms to prevent harm resulting from low-quality work.
Why Americans Die So Much
U.S. life spans, which have fallen behind those in Europe, are telling us something important about American society.
Practice What You Preach: Credibility-enhancing Displays and the Growth of Open Science
Practice What You Preach: Credibility-enhancing Displays and the Growth of Open Science
How can individual scientists most effectively spread the adoption of open science practices? The authors propose visible open science badges, especially by prestigious scientists.
Tackling Biodiversity Loss to Achieve Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development
Mari Pangestu represented the World Bank at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in September 2021, speaking at a high-level dialogue on Unlocking a Nature-Smart Recovery from the pandemic and also an event recognizing the progress.
Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education | FULL TEXT
Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education | FULL TEXT
FULL TEXT. Requiring undergraduate students to perform what is termed original research for their thesis, an investigation that cannot constitute a replication of an existing study, is a failed opportunity for science and education, argues Daniel Quintana.
Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education
Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education
Requiring undergraduate students to perform what is termed original research for their thesis, an investigation that cannot constitute a replication of an existing study, is a failed opportunity for science and education.
Automated Detection of Poor-quality Data: Case Studies in Healthcare
The detection and removal of poor-quality data in a training set is crucial to achieve high-performing AI models. In healthcare, data can be inherently poor-quality due to uncertainty or subjectivity, but as is often the case, the requirement for data privacy restricts AI practitioners from accessing raw training data, meaning manual visual verification of private patient data is not possible. Here we describe a novel method for automated identification of poor-quality data, called Untrainable Data Cleansing. This method is shown to have numerous benefits including protection of private patient data; improvement in AI generalizability; reduction in time, cost, and data needed for training; all while offering a truer reporting of AI performance itself. Additionally, results show that Untrainable Data Cleansing could be useful as a triage tool to identify difficult clinical cases that may warrant in-depth evaluation or additional testing to support a diagnosis.
Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape
Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape
When it comes to science advice infrastructure, Europe is far from a unified whole. That’s why the European Commission’s science service, the Joint Research Centre, set out to map the entire landscape, looking not only at European and national level but also digging into the way science influences policy within regions and even individual cities.
Scientists' Egos Are Key Barrier to Progress, Says Covid Vaccine Pioneer
Prof Katalin Karikó of BioNTech says she endured decades of scepticism over her work on mRNA vaccines.
We Need Authoritarian-proof Higher Education Models
Following the military coup, Burmese faculty and students fear annihilation of a budding modern higher education system, says Kyaw Moe Tun.
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