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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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U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research
The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...
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Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink
In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...
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Crispr, the Disruptor
Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab.
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.s. Science Academies Take On Human-Genome Editing
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to develop guidelines for editing human genomes...
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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Nih Reiterates Ban on Editing Human Embryo Dna
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reaffirmed its ban on research that involves gene editing of human embryos. In a statement released on 29 April,...
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Ethics of Embryo Editing Paper Divides Scientists
In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts cannot agree on whether the work was ethical. They also disagree...
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Climate Scientists Join Search For Alien Earths
The hunt for life beyond the Solar System is gaining new partners: NASA climatologists.
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The Printed Organs Coming to a Body Near You
The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery.
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Five Solar System Sights Nasa Should Visit
It's show time for NASA's planetary programme.
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Complex Molecules Made to Order in Synthesis Machine
Synthesizing complex molecules is a notoriously fiendish art—and a daily toil for many chemists.
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Mistrust and Meddling nsettles .s. Science Agency
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.
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Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project
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...
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Planetary Science: The Pluto Siblings
In a spare conference room in Boulder, Colorado, planetary scientists Leslie and Eliot Young quiz a graduate student to prepare him for his upcoming exams.
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Us Regulators Try to Tame 'wild West' of Dna Testing
Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict how it will affect his or her health.
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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.
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Autonomous Vehicles: No Drivers Required
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...
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Programming: Pick p Python
Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.
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Flock of Geneticists Redraws Bird Family Tree
Evolutionary geneticist Tom Gilbert was sipping a coffee in Madrid five years ago when an idea hit him—literally. "A pigeon crapped on me," he says, "and I thought...
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