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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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Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...Nature From ACM News | March 9, 2015
To publish the most papers, labs should ideally have 10 to 15 members, according to a much-discussed study in PeerJ PrePrints.Nature From ACM Careers | February 6, 2015
Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Paul Allen plans to pump US$100 million into investigating the most basic unit of life—the cell.Nature From ACM Careers | December 8, 2014
China is on track to overtake the United States in research and development (R&D) spending by the end of the decade, according to a report on the global state of...Nature From ACM Careers | November 12, 2014
Delays and funding problems are threatening to push back the planned launch of ExoMars, a European and Russian rover designed to search for life on the red planet...Nature From ACM Careers | August 5, 2014
The European Union's high-profile, €1-billion Human Brain Project, launched last October, has come under fire from neuroscientists, who claim that poor management...Nature From ACM News | July 9, 2014
As US science agencies firm up plans for a national ten-year neuroscience initiative, California is launching an ambitious project of its own.Nature From ACM Careers | June 24, 2014
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.Nature From ACM News | May 2, 2014
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...Nature From ACM News | February 27, 2014
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.Nature From ACM News | October 4, 2013
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...Nature From ACM Careers | August 15, 2013
Astrophysicist France Anne Cordova has been tapped to head the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been run by an acting director since March 2013.Nature News From ACM Careers | August 1, 2013
The academic world is in upheaval over MOOCs: massive open online courses that make university lectures available to tens of thousands of students at a time.Nature From ACM Careers | July 24, 2013
"I've been doing combative stuff since I was born," says Geordie Rose, leaning back in a chair in his small, windowless office in Burnaby, Canada, as he describes...Nature From ACM Careers | June 24, 2013