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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof were awarded the 2013 Nobel…
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” Eric Betzig of the Howard…
The STAP stem cells situation, as I write this down, represents a can of worms whose lid has been pried open by scores of scholarly commentators, most of them active…
Several newspapers today have published shocking news about Elsevier’s Editorial Management System (EES) having been hacked into recently. The popular blog 
Read this post to fully understand AI’s advantages as well as the problems that can occur when using AI tools for academic research. 
Today, computers are used in pretty much every field of scientific research. Computers are ubiquitous in our personal lives as well, and it's hard to imagine a time when…
Over 60 German academic institutions have annulled their subscription contract with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier, which will leave thousands of researchers without…
The 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to the French economist Jean Tirole in recognition of his analysis of market power and regulation. Tirole is chairs the…
Europe’s Competitiveness Council has declared that all online research papers supported by public and public-private funding will be made freely accessible by the year…
Nature Publishing Group announced in an editorial that it will soon offer authors an option to opt for double-blind peer review at the time of submission.