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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
Seven years ago, a cover of The Economist showed Barack Obama, head down on a Louisiana beach in front of an oil rig—the picture of lonely despair.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2017
The Chinese government is going on the offensive against scientists who dupe journals by creating fraudulent reviews of submitted papers.
Nature From ACM Careers | June 20, 2017
In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...Nature From ACM Careers | June 6, 2017
Most research institutions are essentially collections of independent laboratories, each run by principal investigators who head a team of trainees.
Nature From ACM Careers | May 18, 2017
Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50...Nature From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2017
US President Donald Trump has met with two rumoured front-runners for the role of White House science adviser.
Nature From ACM Careers | January 24, 2017
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
There are many ways to rank universities, but one that's rarely considered is how many of their graduates make extraordinary contributions to society.Nature From ACM Careers | October 14, 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
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
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