Wikipedia's crowd-sourced content generation has made it the world's largest encyclopedia, but this model also leads to "edit wars" when editors disagree. The dynamics of these conflicts provide an interesting window into ...
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2012
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After reviewing the authorship of 5.4 million peer-reviewed articles, University of Montreal information scientist Prof Vincent Larivière and colleagues from UQAM and University of Indiana have established that women are ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2013
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Facebook said Tuesday it was reconfiguring its News Feed, in a move aimed at giving people more information about what is happening to "the friends you care about."
Internet
Apr 21, 2015
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Recent efforts to improve on the openness and transparency in science have already begun paying off towards greater integrity in the way researchers do and report science. It is now common practice for scientists to pre-register ...
Education
Dec 29, 2023
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Massive explosions on the sun unleash radiation that could kill astronauts in space.
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2012
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Not all comets break up as they vent and age, but for Rosetta's comet 67P, the Rubber Duckie comet, a crack in the neck raises concerns. Some comets may just fizzle and uniformly expel their volatiles throughout their surfaces. ...
Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2015
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Architectural researchers from the University of Seville have published a scientific article that documents and graphically reconstructs Seville's long vanished Puerta de Triana. This singular architectural work was found ...
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2019
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Keeping up with current scientific literature is a daunting task, considering that hundreds to thousands of papers are published each day. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a computer program ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 17, 2013
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During the past few weeks, empty supermarket shelves, without pasta, rice and flour due to panic buying, has caused public concerns about the possibility of running out of food. Australian farmers have reassured consumers ...
Other
Apr 24, 2020
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An artificial intelligence/machine learning model to predict which scientific advances are likely to eventually translate to the clinic has been developed by Ian Hutchins and colleagues in the Office of Portfolio Analysis ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 10, 2019
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