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At the nuvera fuel cells lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 25-year-old chemical engineer Darryl Pollica stands in front of a prototype 5-kilowatt fuel cell -- a miniature powerplant that can make most of the electricity needed by a family of four. Its metal skin has been removed to reveal a cubical frame about 5 feet on each side, packed with tanks, valves, and electronics. Conspicuously taped to the outside of the frame is a Nokia cellphone.
Stop fetishizing the scientific paper: Our invited Comment in Nature
courtesy Nature If there’s one consistent lesson of covering retractions, it’s that science doesn’t stop when researchers publish a paper. But what also seems true is that once a paper is published, lots of people — authors and editors, in particular — are often reluctant to say just what’s happened next, particularly if it casts the study or the journal in a negative light. Some of this is understandable, given the weight given papers by tenure committees and granting agencies. Still, Retraction Watch readers will not be surprised to know we’d like that to change, so when Nature asked us to contribute an end-of-the-year commentary, we decided to focus on post-publication peer review. In our piece, which appears this week, titled “The paper is not sacred,” we argue:
The Superstring Store
In association with Welcome to the Superstring Store Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun by David L. Goodstein, Judith R.
"Race" in College Admission FAQ & Discussion 9
[Moderator's note: This thread has been superseded by a newer FAQ and discussion thread, in which you are all invited to participate. Accordingly, this thread will be closed to further posts.] Ethnic Self-Identification Is Optional for College Admission Students are often puzzled about how to respond to questions on college applications about race or ethnicity. The questions are required by a federal regulation, a new version of which from 2007 came into effect for the 2009-2010 application season.
Journal home : Nature
Raphael Lis, Charles C. Karrasch, Michael G. Poulos, Balvir Kunar, David Redmond, Jose G.
Glow kitties
cat Just in time for Halloween, a team of scientists has introduced a new breed of kittens that glow in the dark. They’re cute, cuddly and bright, with fur that shines yellow-green when you turn off the light.
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Krešimir Josić works in several areas of mathematical biology and applied dynamics. His main interest is theoretical neuroscience. In particular, he is interested in how coherent behavior in neuronal networks is used to encode information. His work in this area has appeared in journals like Nature, Neural Computation and the Journal of Computational Neuroscience. He is co-editing a soon to appear book on this topic. Dr.
Funding - Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering Critical Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) Solicitation 14-543 Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 9, 2014
Unseen Titanic
The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed. Fungi feed on it. Weird colorless life-forms, unfazed by the crushing pressure, prowl its jagged ramparts.
Ask TON: Breaking into science writing
Welcome back for another installment of Ask TON. (Click here to see previous installments.) Today’s question: I’m a new science writer and I have very few published clips. What types of stories, and what types of venues (or specific ones) are best for someone like me to pitch to? And what are some good strategies for finding ideas that won’t be pitched by a ton of other writers?
A Guide To Law School Prediction Calculators
Published June 2010 You’ve just gotten your LSAT score back from the LSAC website after frantically hit F5 countless times on score-release day. For better or for worse, you now have a three-digit number that law school admission committees are going to give great consideration. On the other hand, maybe you don’t have your LSAT score and/or GPA yet, but want to have some idea of what you need to aim for to get into certain schools.
