It’s Gonna Get a Lot Easier to Break Science Journal Paywalls
WIRED–Dec 3, 2017
Anurag Acharya’s problem was that the Google search bar is very smart, but also kind of dumb. As a Googler working on search 13 years ago, Acharya wanted to make search results encompass scholarly journal articles. A laudable goal, because unlike the open web, most of the raw output of scientific …
Los Angeles Times
Arctic Sea Ice Melt to Exacerbate California Droughts: Study
U.S. News & World Report–2 hours ago
Modeling by the scientists showed that the loss of sea ice could cause a 10 to 15 percent decrease in California’s rainfall when considering a 20-year mean, with some years becoming … The study appeared in the journal Nature Communications and was funded by the Energy Department’s science office.
In a first, Galileo’s gravity experiment is re-created in space
Science News–Dec 4, 2017
Share Article. Email. Email. Print. Print. Twitter. Twitter. Facebook. Facebook. Reddit. Reddit. Google+. Google+. satellite illustration. FREE-FALLIN’ Scientistscompared the acceleration of two objects in free fall in a satellite orbiting 710 kilometers above Earth (illustrated). (c) CNES/Virtual-IT 2017. Email.
What would happen if all Americans went vegan?
Science Magazine–Nov 13, 2017
Consider the hamburger. Producing this staple of the U.S. diet takes 25 kilograms of animal feed, 25 square meters of land, and about 220 liters of water—all for four patties. Statistics like those have persuaded some scientists and environmental activists that eating less meat could have a big impact on …
How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science
Reason (blog)–Nov 30, 2017
Eisen first thought he could simply convince his fellow scientists to start uploading their work, but that didn’t work because universities and funding agencies use journals as a proxy for quality. They base tenure and award decisions in large part on how many articles a researcher publishes, and on the …
Computerized biology, or how to control a population of cells with a …
Science Daily–19 hours ago
Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and Inria, with researchers from the CNRS and Paris Diderot University, and from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Austria, have published two articles in Nature Communications about computer control of cellular processes. Hybrid experimental …
Scientists replaced 80 percent of a ‘butterfly’ boy’s skin
Science News–Nov 8, 2017
Share Article. Email. Email. Print. Print. Twitter. Twitter. Facebook. Facebook. Reddit. Reddit. Google+. Google+. SKIN REPAIR A 7-year-old with a rare genetic condition lost most of the top layer of his skin, the epidermis. Scientists used a combination of stem cells and gene therapy to repair the damage.
Stories of sex, stars and sharks amongst the best Australian science …
The Conversation AU–Nov 6, 2017
Stories of sex, stars and sharks amongst the best Australian science writing in 2017 … This is what we’re all about at The Conversation – making sure that all our articlesare supported by evidence, and at the same time helping readers see the relevance, the importance, the nuances but also the joy of …
Wrongly Imprisoned for Killing His Infant Daughter, a Father Could …
Slate Magazine–1 hour ago
The science on shaken baby syndrome, it turns out, was not actually sound and should not have been used for putting this father behind bars. By Vince Beiser …. At least three such convictions have landed people on death row, according to a recent New Scientist article. The Innocence Project, a national …
What the Pliocene epoch can teach us about future warming on Earth
Science News–Nov 28, 2017
This article appears in the December 9, 2017 issue of Science News with the headline, “Lessons from the Pliocene: A warm period in the past offers a window to the future.” Citations. B. de Boer et al. The transient response of ice volume to orbital forcing during the warm late Pliocene. Geophysical …
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