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"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon
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"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon
When a clinical trial falters, doctors find themselves sifting through the rubble.
Understanding that vaccines are critical to public health and human-driven carbon emissions are un-terraforming the planet cannot be the purview of the one percent.
The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives awards a fellowship each year either to an unconventional technology expert early in his/her career, or a scholar or activist working at the intersection of humanities, social sciences and technology studies or technological solutions.
"It’s clear we are a long way from artificial general intelligence." - Erik Brynjolfsson
According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.
NIH recommendations to identify credible journals.
A researcher specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder is facing jail time for allegedly embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of federal grant money.
Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the state’s burgeoning—and notoriously combative—anti-vaccine movement.
The National Academy of Sciences called on the federal government to make drastic policy changes to bring down the cost of prescription medicines.
The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.
EU leaders highlighted their political support for enhanced cooperation in education.
Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility.
Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.
Climate updates describes how our understanding of the science of climate change, and its impacts, have progressed since the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.
Long-awaited industrial strategy pins hopes on commercial gains from research.
The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.
"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman
When fellow scientists critiqued Mark Jacobson, he took their dispute to court.
Springer Nature is considering a potential 4-5 billion euro stock market listing next year.
When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.