Collaborate Disseminate
Nature: Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of Lo… Continue reading Digital Preservation Is Not Keeping Up With the Growth of Scholarly Knowledge
The difference between holography and photography can be summarized perhaps most succinctly as the difference between recording the effect photons have on a surface, versus recording the wavefront which is …read more Continue reading Holograms: the Art of Recording Wavefronts
India has struck a landmark $715 million deal with 30 global academic publishers to provide nationwide free access to nearly 13,000 research journals. The “One Nation One Subscription” initiative, launching January 2025, will benefit an estimated 18 mi… Continue reading India Takes Out Giant Nationwide Subscription To 13,000 Journals
The 20th century saw humankind’s first careful steps outside of the biosphere in which our species has evolved. Whereas before humans had experienced the bitter cold of high altitudes, the …read more Continue reading Exploring the Sounds and Sights Of Alien Worlds
Although largely relegated to retrocomputing enthusiasts and embedded systems or microcontrollers now, there was a time when there were no other computers available other than those with 8-bit processors. The …read more Continue reading 8-Bit Computers Crunch Advanced Scientific Computations
“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised …read more Continue reading Hacking Trees to Bring Back the American Chestnut
Major academic publishers including Elsevier and Springer Nature are grappling with a sophisticated new journal hijacking scam that precisely mimics their websites to deceive researchers.
The fraudulent operation, reported by Retraction Watch, has cl… Continue reading Journal Scam Targets Top Science Publishers
A million and a half years ago, amid giant storks and the ancestors of antelopes, two extinct relatives of humans walked along the same muddy lakeshore in what is today northern Kenya, new research suggests. From a report: An excavation team uncovered … Continue reading Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another
A University of Birmingham study reveals that PFAS and microplastics have a synergistic effect that significantly increases their toxicity. “The study’s authors exposed water fleas to mixtures of the toxic substances and found they suffered more severe… Continue reading PFAS and Microplastics Become More Toxic When Combined, Research Shows
Fossil fuels can be a bit fussy to access, and geopolitics tends to make prices volatile. Burning them also takes carbon out of the ground and puts it into the …read more Continue reading Could Nuclear Be The Way To Produce Synthetic Fuel On The Cheap?