Lecturer or Professor of the Practice - University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD, 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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Europe Proposes Copyright Reform to Help Scientists Mine Research Papers
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...
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Why Scientists Must Share Their Research Code
Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational research:...
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Computers on the Reef
Blue spires seem to pop out of the photograph in one place; a patch of bushy forms of pinkish-purple in another.
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Obama's Science Legacy: Betting Big on Biomedical Science
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...
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China, Japan, Cern: Who Will Host the Next Lhc?
It was a triumph for particle physics—and many were keen for a piece of the action.
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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.
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'kudos' Promises to Help Scientists Promote Their Papers to New Audiences
Few people have heard of Michele Tobias's research field—and even fewer study it.
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The nsung Heroes of Crispr
When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.
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How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl.
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First Crispr Clinical Trial Gets Green Light from S Panel
CRISPR, the genome-editing technology that has taken biomedical science by storm, is finally nearing human trials.
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Promising Gene Therapies Pose Million-Dollar Conundrum
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...
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Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response
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...
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...
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Gene Variants Linked to Success at School Prove Divisive
The largest-ever genetics study in the social sciences has turned up dozens of DNA markers that are linked to the number of years of formal education an individual...
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S and China Eye p European Gravitational-Wave Mission
In the wake of the historic detection of gravitational waves by a terrestrial US experiment, a space-borne European effort is drawing interest from a range of parties...
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Uk Graphene Inquiry Reveals Commercial Struggles
The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...
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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...
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The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life
Emmanuelle Charpentier's office is bare, save for her computer.
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Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ltimate Test
It is the elephant in the room for dark-matter research: a claimed detection that is hard to believe, impossible to confirm and surprisingly difficult to explain...
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