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| Sep 29, 2025 | Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College Celebrates 3 Scientists in Stanford Rankings – 2 in Global Top 2% List, 1 in Career-Long Top 2% | Pune, Maharashtra, India
Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Pimpri, Pune, proudly announces that three of its esteemed scientists have earned recognition in Stanford University’s prestigious global rankings of ... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Academic Publishers Sign AI Deals as Trump Cuts Research Funding | |
| Jan 27, 2025 | The Cost of Climate on Education: A Global Crisis | In a world where the sun scorches and storms rage, children are caught in the crossfire. A recent report from UNICEF reveals a staggering truth: nearly 250 million children missed school last year due to extreme weather events. This is not ... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | India Spends $715 Million On The Wrong Kind Of Open Access Journals | Numerous articles on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have ... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | From the Impossible Burger to A Carbon Ranch, Film Spotlights Pat Brown’s Bid to Save the Planet | 5 Mins Read Impossible Foods founder Pat Brown is the subject of a recent episode of the Wild Hope documentary, which details his dedication to fighting climate change, and his new Carbon Ranch.
After decades spent in labs, Pat Brown is tak... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to treat injuries and illnesses, study finds | London — Chimpanzees in the wild use medicinal plants to treat their injuries or illnesses, according to a study from the University of Oxford that researchers say is the most in-depth analysis to date.
Scientists monitored 51 chimpanzees f... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Researcher bridges biology and computing with processing in DNA storage that could one day change the way we store information | Microfluidic devices being built in RIT engineering laboratories are being explored as new options for data storage on DNA. RIT researchers have discovered the means to bridge biology and data.
An engineering researcher at Rochester Institu... |
| May 31, 2024 | Hansa Biopharma Completes Randomization in Pivotal Phase 3 US ConfIdeS Trial | Hansa Biopharma Completes Randomization in Pivotal Phase 3 US ConfIdeS Trial
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Lund, Sweden, 31 May, 2024. Hansa Biopharma AB, (“Hansa” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq Stockholm: HNSA), today announce... |
| May 28, 2024 | Ancient Greek Armor Found by Researchers May Have Been Used in the Trojan War | By Jace Dela Cruz
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A centuries-old mystery may have been unraveled after researchers, supported by 13 H... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Chocolate Supply Faces Cacao Virus Threat, Math Researchers Bring a Solution | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 24 April 2024, 08:04 pm
There is a massive problem in West Africa, and the chocolate supply is facing a significant threat as the cacao tree virus is affecting farms and rapidly spreading in the country's regions.... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | Из собирателей в фермеры 5 200 лет назад: необычная «карьера» человека из Виттрупа | В 1915 году недалеко от деревни Виттруп рабочие, занимавшиеся добычей торфа, обнаружили останки мужчины с проломленным черепом. Сразу было понятно, что человек умер очень давно, тысячи лет назад. Находка хранилась в одном из музеев Дании на... |
| May 23, 2023 | Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free? | When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. Students and professors affiliated with most colleges have unlimited access to large collections of scholarship such as JSTOR and HeinOnline, ... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | No easy way to communicate risks of climate change, new research finds | New research from the Singapore Management University shows that having individuals visualise the shock of future climate change failed to motivate them to change behaviour
Research insights demonstrate the importance of customising communi... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Pepsi, UT Austin join WRI’s Cool Food initiative for climate-friendly diets | PepsiCo, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), ISS, and healthcare organizations Providence and the Mount Sinai Health System are joining the Cool Food Pledge, part of a World Resources Institute (WRI) initiative that aims to conve... |
| Apr 7, 2022 | 22 open source datasets to boost AI modeling | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Some say, “data is the new oil,” with an air of s... |
| Apr 4, 2022 | Impossible Foods’ new CEO starts today. He has some big decisions to make about its future | Today, Patrick Brown steps down as CEO of Impossible Foods – the plant-based protein juggernaut he founded in 2011.
Peter McGuinness, former president and chief operating officer at yogurt brand Chobani, has taken the reins; Brown will rema... |
| Jan 10, 2019 | PLOS ONE Topic Pages: Peer-Reviewed Articles That Are Also Wikipedia Entries: What's Not To Like? | It is hard to imagine life without Wikipedia. That’s especially the case if you have school-age children, who now turn to it by default for information when working on homework. Less well-known is the importance of Wikipedia for scientists,... |
| Jul 21, 2017 | Gender discrimination controversy grows at fabled Salk Institute | Accusations of gender discrimination are growing at the Salk Institute, where a third female professor has sued the La Jolla science center for allegedly giving preference to men in pay, promotions, grant funding and leadership positions.
B... |
| Jan 4, 2017 | Doctors, data, and diseases: How AI is transforming health care | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Health care doesn’t have a big data problem. It h... |
| Oct 19, 2015 | Battle for open access is far from over | |
| Oct 19, 2015 | The battle for open access is far from over | Monday October 19 marks the beginning of the eighth Open Access (OA) week, a global event to highlight all things open access.
It also marks three years since the Australasian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) – a coalition of nine Australi... |
| Aug 17, 2015 | Open access is a development issue – the status quo needs to be challenged | |
| Jul 10, 2015 | New Boycott In Support Of Open Access: Third Time Lucky? | Over three years ago, we wrote about a fast-growing boycott of the academic publisher Elsevier, organised in protest at that company’s high prices, its “bundling” of journals into larger collections, and its support for SOPA. Even though ov... |
| Jun 6, 2014 | Dylan's Desk: Watch this multi-billion-dollar industry evaporate overnight | Imagine an industry where a few companies make billions of dollars by exerting strict control over valuable information — while paying the people who produce that information nothing at all.
That’s the state of academic, scientific publishi... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | From Crowdfunding To Open Access, Startups Are Experimenting With Academic Research | These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a ... |
| Jan 25, 2014 | Mike Taylor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | Mike Taylor here, and it’s my pleasure to be your Posts Of The Week host. By day I’m a computer programmer, working for Index Data, the world’s tiniest multinational software house, with a portfolio mostly made up of free software. At night... |
| Dec 14, 2013 | Are doctors being duped through medical education? Could social media help? | For now, though, this revelation got me thinking about medical education. How does it happen that doctors (and patients) can be misled?
Many smart people think medical misinformation occurs in large part because industry pervades medical ed... |
| Oct 16, 2013 | Science Exchange (YC S11) gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 major cancer studies | Congrats to the Science Exchange team:
“Over a year ago, I began my mission to improve scientific reproducibility. I created the Reproducibility Initiative with PLOS, figshare, and Mendeley to provide a mechanism for scientists to independ... |
| Oct 4, 2013 | Fighting To Free Knowledge Paid For By Taxpayers — And Winning | One of the pioneers of open access is Michael Eisen, who helped found what has become the leading open access publisher, Public Library of Science, back in 2000. Since then, he’s been a pugnacious defender of the public’s right to read the ... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | How PeerJ Is Changing Everything In Academic Publishing | Has there ever been a business more ripe for disruption than academic publishing? For anyone who’s not been following along, the business model of academic publishers, built on solving 18th century distribution problems, incarnates the Shir... |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Your blog, your CV, and academic promotion | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
"Doctor, could we have a copy of your most recent CV."
"Sure," I said, realizing it hadn’t been updated recently.
It is interesting how I approach my academic pursuits now. It used to be tha... |
| Feb 3, 2013 | After Aaron, Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry | Editor’s note: Richard Price is founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers. You can follow Richard on Twitter @richardprice100.
Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He p... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | ResearchGate: It’s Facebook for Scientists | It’s awesome to connect with other like-minded science folk on Facebook, the world’s largest social network, but sometimes you want to keep the talk insider baseball – and that means no interjections from your mom, brother and imaginary fri... |
| Jan 31, 2012 | Will Academics' Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access — Or Another Embarrassing Flop? | It’s now widely recognized that the extreme demands of SOPA/PIPA catalyzed a new activism within the Net world, epitomized by the blackout effected by sites like Wikipedia on January 18. But as Techdirt has reported, SOPA and PIPA are not t... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field | The arguments against open access have moved on from the initial “it’ll never work” to the “maybe it’ll work, but it’s not sustainable” stage. That raises a valid point, of course: who will pay for journals that make their content freely av... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Finally a Good Use for Google Knol: Sharing Information About Flu Research | Last year, Google Knollaunched to a lot of hype and skepticism. While, at first, it looked like a possible Wikipedia-challenger, in reality, it didn’t attract a lot of users or attention, even though some of the articles on the site are act... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | The Bourne Innovation: UC Researchers Launch a YouTube for Scientists | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As an editor at a growing online resource called the Public Library of Science, UC San Diego Professor Philip Bourne is in an ideal position to see the disruptive changes that... |
| Oct 13, 2003 | Monkey Brain Implant Controls Robotic Arm | Previously, we were a bit skeptical whether a monkey brain implant could really move a cursor on a computer screen. It looks like the work has been reproduced and slightly modified so that a monkey controls a robotic arm. Interestingly, thi... |
| Are doctors being duped through medical education? Could social media help? | I made a discovery this week about the novel anticoagulant medications, dabigatran (Pradaxa), rivaroxaban (Xarelto), apixaban (Eliquis) and edoxaban (Lixiana). I was looking into the often-asked question of how these new drugs compare to th... |
