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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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China Is Closing Gap With United States on Research Spending
The United States is no longer the "uncontested leader" in science globally, the U.S. National Science Foundation says.
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Russia Will Spend $790M to Build Quantum Computer
The Russian government will spend around 50 billion roubles (US$790 million) over the next five years on basic and applied quantum research at leading Russian laboratories...
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Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database
Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.
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The Plan to Mine the World's Research Papers
A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis—but is it legal?
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Scientists' Salary Data Highlight $18,000 Gender Pay Gap
The U.S. National Science Foundation's annual census has determined that male scientists who obtained doctorates in 2017 and have jobs in the wings expect to earn...
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Technologies to Watch in 2019
Seven specialists forecast the developments that will push their fields forward in the year ahead.
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Tenure Denial, and How Early-Career Researchers Can Survive It
Scientists with first-hand experience offer advice on coping with a denial of tenure.
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International Students Steer Clear of Graduate Programs in the nited States
The number of international students enrolling in U.S. graduate programs is falling, according to reports from the U.S. Council of Graduate Schools in Washington...
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Europe's AI researchers Launch Professional Body Over Fears of Falling Behind
Some of Europe's top machine-learning researchers have founded an organization to strengthen capacity in artificial intelligence (AI) technology on the continent...
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Film and Television Tell Children Who Can Be Scientists
The portrayal of STEM jobs in U.S. film and television largely reinforces the narrative that scientists are white men, according to a study by the Geena Davis Institute...
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Science Candidates Prevail in S Midterm Elections
Results from the United States' midterm elections are still pouring in, but a handful of candidates with backgrounds in science or technology have already nabbed...
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How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
AI-based tools can offer a penetrating view of scientific literature, computationally taming the vast flood of scholarly papers published at a rate of 1 million...
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A Toolkit for Data Transparency Takes Shape
Julia Stewart Lowndes studied metre-long Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), tagging them to track their dives, as a graduate student at Stanford University in California...
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Chief of Europe's €1-Billion Brain Project Steps Down
The executive director of the European Union's ambitious—but contentious—Human Brain Project (HBP) has left his post after a disagreement with the institution that...
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Billion-Dollar Telescopes Could End p Beyond the Reach of S Astronomers
Every ten years, US astronomers set research priorities for the following decade.
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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Bias Detectives: The Researchers Striving to Make Algorithms Fair
In 2015, a worried father asked Rhema Vaithianathan a question that still weighs on her mind.
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New Human Gene Tally Reignites Debate
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...
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Technology and Satellite Companies Open p a World of Data
Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites.
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