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Planetariums, Not Just For Kids
Most researchers think of planetariums, if they think of them at all, as a place to take schoolchildren for whizzy trips through the stars, with nothing to offer...
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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival
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...
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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach
A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...
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Scientists Can Publish Their Best Work at Any Age
Hoping that your next paper will be the big one?
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Worldwide Brain-Mapping Project Sparks Excitement, and Concern
Worries include how to coordinate research programs and resources from different countries.
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Majority of Mathematicians Hail from Just 24 Scientific 'families'
Most of the world's mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century.
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Let the Structural Symphony Begin
Like other structural biologists, Eva Nogales works in extraordinary times.
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Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science
Knowledge from millions of biological studies encoded into one network—that is Daniel Himmelstein's alluring description of Hetionet, a free online resource that...
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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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Brain-Data Gold Mine Could Reveal How Neurons Compute
Inspired by the large-scale sky surveys with which astronomers explore the cosmos, neuroscientists in Seattle, Washington, have spent four years systematically...
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Obama's Top Scientist Talks Shrinking Budgets, Donald Trump, and His Biggest Regret
John Holdren is no stranger to the spotlight. Over his long career in science, Holdren—a physicist by training—has worked on controversial issues such as climate...
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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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Computer Gleans Chemical Insight from Lab Notebook Failures
Did your experiment fail? Don't bin the data just yet—they could be useful.
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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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Europe Plans Giant Billion-Euro Quantum Technologies Project
The European Commission has quietly announced plans to launch a €1-billion (US$1.13 billion) project to boost a raft of quantum technologies—from secure communication...
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Crispr: Gene Editing Is Just the Beginning
Whenever a paper about CRISPR–Cas9 hits the press, the staff at Addgene quickly find out.
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...
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Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...
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Biohackers Gear p For Genome Editing
A complete lack of formal scientific training has not kept Johan Sosa from dabbling with one of the most powerful molecular-biology tools to come along in decades...
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