About a year after she was appointed to a senior editorial role at an academic journal, psychology researcher Professor Simine Vazire was admonished for upsetting eminent researchers by "desk rejecting" their papers.
Other
Jun 30, 2020
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Agricultural soils contribute to 16% of total Greenhouse gas emissions, particularly nitrous oxide (N2O). Migration of gases in agricultural subsurface and emission across the soil-atmosphere interface is primarily diffusion-controlled ...
Environment
May 7, 2020
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To quickly identify victims of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California's history, researchers used a technique called Rapid DNA Identification that can provide results within hours, compared with months to ...
Other
Mar 4, 2020
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Eating too much salt can have significant negative health implications, and modern processed food typically contains high levels of salt to improve taste and preservation.
Other
Mar 3, 2020
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A new study has found that socioeconomic status (SES) has the strongest impact on whether secondary school students study the STEM sciences.
Education
Feb 27, 2020
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Perception is reality, the adage goes, and it may even be true when it comes to conveying the findings of medical and life science research.
Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2019
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A new study looking at the issues arising in publication ethics that journal editors face within the arts, humanities and social sciences has highlighted that detecting plagiarism in papers submitted to a journal is the most ...
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2019
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A fundamental norm of science is that its findings are common property of the scientific community and that scientific progress relies on open communication and sharing. Yet all too often, journal editors and reviewers reject ...
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2019
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Scientific research usually takes months to be published by academic journals, and once it is, many of the papers can only be read by scientists from wealthy institutes that subscribe to the journals. Over the years, there ...
Other
Jun 4, 2019
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Three centuries ago, when modern science was in its infancy, the gender disparity in education was not a gap but an abyss: few girls had any decent schooling at all.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2019
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