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Norfolk, VA, United States
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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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Machine Learning Gets to Grips with Plankton Challenge
When they think about big data, most researchers probably imagine genomics, neuroscience or particle physics. Kelly Robinson's data challenge involves plankton....
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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 Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...
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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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Software Beats Animal Tests at Predicting Toxicity of Chemicals
Machine-learning software trained on masses of chemical-safety data is so good at predicting some kinds of toxicity that it now rivals—and sometimes outperforms—expensive...
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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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The Researchers Who Study Alien Linguistics
Sheri Wells-Jensen is fascinated by languages no one has ever heard—those that might be spoken by aliens.
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Before Reproducibility Must Come Preproducibility
From time to time over the past few years, I've politely refused requests to referee an article on the grounds that it lacks enough information for me to check...
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Some Hard Numbers on Science's Leadership Problems
Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses.
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Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed
The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...
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Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension
As I put on a virtual-reality (VR) headset, the outside world disappears.
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Attacks in K and Syria Highlight Growing Need for Chemical-Forensics Expertise
As investigations continue into the attempted assassination of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, findings released this week have renewed...
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Tom Lehrer at 90: A Life of Scientific Satire
In 1959, the mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer—who turns 90 this month—performed what he characteristically called a "completely pointless" scientific song...
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Einstein, Bohr and the War Over Quantum Theory
All hell broke loose in physics some 90 years ago. Quantum theory emerged—partly in heated clashes between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr.
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