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The Power of the Individual in an Exponential Crisis

The Power of the Individual in an Exponential Crisis

A simple graph illustrates the power of exponential growth in infectious times and how individuals can affect change.

What is Peer Review in Science? A Complete Guide - ARTiFACTS

What is Peer Review in Science? A Complete Guide - ARTiFACTS

Ready to stop asking yourself, what is a peer review in science? Allow us to enlighten you. Here is your complete guide!

How to fight the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its disease, CoVID-19

How to fight the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its disease, CoVID-19

An informational briefing on COVID-19.

Mutations Can Reveal How the Coronavirus Moves-but They're Easy to Overinterpret

Mutations Can Reveal How the Coronavirus Moves-but They're Easy to Overinterpret

Real-time analysis of hundreds of viral genomes helps scientists understand how the virus is spreading - but overinterpretation is a real danger.

Savants Ou Militants ? Le Dilemme Des Chercheurs Face à La Crise écologique

Savants Ou Militants ? Le Dilemme Des Chercheurs Face à La Crise écologique

Ils signent pétitions et tribunes pour alerter sur le réchauffement climatique et la dégradation de la biodiversité, pourtant, leur incursion dans le débat public n'a rien d'évident. A l'heure des " fake news ", la communauté scientifique questionne le bien-fondé de son engagement.

Humans Are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges

Humans Are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges

From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity -- and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.

Tipsheet: Covering the Coronavirus Epidemic Effectively Without Spreading Misinformation - The Open Notebook

Tipsheet: Covering the Coronavirus Epidemic Effectively Without Spreading Misinformation - The Open Notebook

The coronavirus epidemic will be one of the most urgent, complex, and quickly moving stories of the year. For anyone reporting on this evolving public health crisis, here are some tips to keep in mind.

China's Aggressive Measures Have Slowed the Coronavirus. They May Not Work in Other Countries

China's Aggressive Measures Have Slowed the Coronavirus. They May Not Work in Other Countries

A report from joint WHO-China mission takes a detailed look at the results of response in the country hit hardest.

A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research

A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research

An Interior Department official has pressed scientists to include misleading climate language - including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial - into their work.

'Recenter Library Systems on the User': An Interview with OhioLINK's Gwen Evans

'Recenter Library Systems on the User': An Interview with OhioLINK's Gwen Evans

The major US library consortium OhioLINK has created a vision for the systems that libraries use for acquiring content from publishers, managing collections, and enabling discovery. An interview about this vision with executive director Gwen Evans.

Jess Wade's One-Woman Mission to Diversify Wikipedia's Science Stories

Jess Wade's One-Woman Mission to Diversify Wikipedia's Science Stories

Our largest encyclopedia overwhelmingly recognises the achievements of white men. For physicist Jess Wade, fighting this bias has been an uphill battle to ensure that the scientific contributions made by women and other under-represented communities aren’t lost to posterity.

One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies

One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies

Back in 1972, NASA sent their last team of astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission. These astronauts brought some of the Moon back to Earth so scientists could continue to study lunar soil in their labs. Since we haven't returned to the Moon in almost 50 years, every lunar sample is precious. We need to make them count for researchers now and in the future. In a new study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, scientists found a new way to analyze the chemistry of the Moon's soil using a single grain of dust.

How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang

Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail.

'Death by a Thousand Cuts': Women of Colour in Science Face a Subtly Hostile Work Environment

'Death by a Thousand Cuts': Women of Colour in Science Face a Subtly Hostile Work Environment

Scientific research can be a daunting career choice for women of colour, according to a recent survey which found they face a "barrage of brief, everyday racial slights" at work.

Special Issue on Emerging FAIR Practices Published in Data Intelligence

Special Issue on Emerging FAIR Practices Published in Data Intelligence

In this special issue, the original conception of the FAIR data principles and what they are intended to cover is explained in detail.