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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...Nature From ACM Careers | December 12, 2016
When crop engineers from around the world gathered in London in late October, their research goals were ambitious: to make rice that uses water more efficiently...Nature From ACM Careers | November 3, 2016
This week, the White House published its report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI)—a product of four workshops held between May and July 2016 in Seattle...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2016
Five months after announcing its intentions to gather genome sequences from 2 million people, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has selected geneticist David Goldstein...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2016
Victoria Orphan, a geobiologist and explorer of marine life on the sea floor, is one of eight scientists to win a 'genius grant' this year from the philanthropic...Nature From ACM Careers | September 23, 2016
The European Commission has announced long-awaited plans to make it easier for researchers to harvest facts and data from research papers—by freeing the computer...Nature From ACM Careers | September 20, 2016
Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational research:...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 15, 2016
Blue spires seem to pop out of the photograph in one place; a patch of bushy forms of pinkish-purple in another.Nature From ACM Careers | September 1, 2016
Most of the world's mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century.Nature From ACM Careers | August 26, 2016
When president-elect Barack Obama chose physicist John Holdren as his top science adviser in December 2008, some biomedical researchers worried that the pick signalled...Nature From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2016
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.Nature From ACM Careers | August 12, 2016
Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already available in Europe. The developments mark a triumph...Nature From ACM Careers | June 15, 2016
Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...Nature From ACM Careers | June 14, 2016
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...Nature From ACM News | June 2, 2016