Professors expose the 'uncomfortably common' practice of coercive citation
In today's highly competitive world, everyone wants to get ahead. But at what cost? That's the question Dr. Eric Fong, associate professor of management at The University of Alabama in Huntsville...
View ArticleBest of Last Week—Transferring quantum states, wireless energy breakthrough...
It has once again been an interesting week for physics—a team working in China demonstrated a quantum communication scheme that transferred quantum states without transmitting physical particles. They...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – Testing for extra dimensions, solving the riddle of life...
It was another good week for physics as a trio of physicists suggested that if scientists are someday able to detect mini black holes at the LHC, at certain energy levels, it could indicate the...
View ArticleFrom here to infinity: 3-D map plots every color farther than the eye can see
All Virginia Commonwealth University professor Robert Meganck wanted was a better technique to teach color theory to his students.
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It was another good week for physics as researchers at Ohio State University conducted a landmark study that proved that magnets can control heat and sound—they demonstrated a magnetic field reducing...
View ArticleScientists ask, peer review on fast track at what price?
A fast-track peer-review trial is in the news. A Nature Publishing Group (NPG) -owned journal's editorial board member has resigned in protest over a pilot project where researchers pay for faster peer...
View ArticleBest of Last Week—Black holes don't erase information, a stick computer and...
(Phys.org)—It was another good week for physics as a team of researchers with the University of Waterloo found that a photon "afterglow" could transmit information without transmitting energy—though...
View ArticleShakespeare's plays reveal his psychological signature
Shakespeare is such a towering literary figure that any new insight into the man, or his work, tends to generate a jolt of excitement in academic and non-academic communities of Shakespeare...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – A way to measure variations in the speed of light, a...
(Phys.org)—It was a big week for physics. First, a trio of researchers proposed a method to measure variations in the speed of light—in alternative theories of cosmology where it has been theorized...
View ArticleHow three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals
In recent years, the field of academic publishing has ballooned to an estimated 30,000 peer-reviewed journals churning out some 2 million articles per year. While this growth has led to more scientific...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – Dark matter maybe not so dark, chance of asteroid strike...
(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week for physics as a multinational team of researchers found potential signs of "interacting" dark matter that suggested the mysterious material is not completely dark...
View ArticleBest of Last Week–Variance of gravitational constant, 50 years of Moore's Law...
It was an interesting week in physics as researchers delved into the question of why the measurements of the gravitational constant vary so much. The latest theory suggests that it is not likely...
View ArticleCollin Burns in 5.253 seconds sets Rubik's Cube time record (w/ Video)
Collin Burns took part in a Rubik's Cube competition at a high school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. The event is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. He solved...
View ArticleShort science abstracts that avoid jargon and hype are cited less, study shows
When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most scientists receive similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a new analysis by University of Chicago researchers of over one million...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – Pondering the universe as hologram, Tesla's home battery...
(Phys.org)—It was a big week for physics as researchers at Aalto University, together with a team from Amherst College, have observed for the first time, a point-like monopole in a quantum field...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – A quantum shortcut, a ten-engine plane and cell phones...
(Phys.org)—Once again, it was a good week for physics as a team of researchers found a quantum shortcut that could speed up many quantum technologies—they devised a new method for preparing quantum...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – Study backs Standard Model, splitting an electron and...
(Phys.org)—It was a pretty big week for physics as a team of researchers working at CERN's LHC reported that a three-decade long quest backs physics' Standard Model. They detected a revealing change in...
View ArticleBest of Last Week—Increasing antihydrogen production, converting waste heat...
(Phys.org)—It was another good week for physics as a team of researchers found some ways to increase antihydrogen production—having more of the stuff could lead to better experiments to learn more...
View ArticleBest of Last Week–Confirming quantum weirdness, revolutionary bionic lens and...
(Phys.org)—It was a an interesting week for physics as a team with the Australian National University conducted an experiment that confirmed quantum theory weirdness—they carried out John Wheeler's...
View ArticleAfter years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a...
(Phys.org)—As one of Australia's most infamous cold case mysteries, the enigma of the Somerton Man deals with a haunting situation: a man is found dead on a beach, and no one steps forward to identify...
View ArticleAfter years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a...
(Phys.org)—This is the second part of a two-part story about the forensic investigation of the Somerton Man. Read "Part 1: History and Code" here.
View ArticleBest of Last Week – Light's pushing pressure, the riddle of Somerton Man and...
(Phys.org)—It was a very good week for physics as a team of researchers from China and Israel made the first observation of the pushing pressure of light—they were able to show the surface of a liquid...
View ArticleDenied under Nazis, 102-year-old Jewish woman gets doctorate
Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport wasn't allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in 1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish. Nearly eight decades later, she became Germany's oldest recipient of a...
View ArticleFive companies control more than half of academic publishing
A study at the University of Montreal shows that the market share of the five largest research publishing houses reached 50% in 2006, rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30% in 1996 and...
View ArticleBest of Last Week—New violations of local realism, a computer that runs on...
(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week for physics as a combined team of researchers from China and Singapore demonstrated new violations of local realism—they have shown that all mixed entangled states...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – Renewable energy from evaporating water, left-handed...
(Phys.org)—It was a good week for new technology as a team of researchers at Columbia University announced a way to get renewable energy from evaporating water—they have come up with two devices, one a...
View ArticleTop scientists call for improved incentives to ensure research integrity
Scientific controversies, from problems replicating results - such as with the now debunked association between autism and MMR vaccines - to researcher misconduct and sensationalism, have led to...
View ArticleGroup calls for more transparency in science research, announces guidelines
An international group of academic leaders, journal editors and funding-agency representatives and disciplinary leaders, including Rick Wilson, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair of Political Science and...
View ArticleBest of Last Week–Magnetic devils staircase, a skinlike display and conscious...
(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week in physics as an international team of researchers found that quantum coherence and quantum entanglement are two sides of the same coin—they found a way to show...
View ArticleBest of Last Week – A less crowded universe, antibiotics altering child...
(Phys.org)—It was a pretty big week for space science as researchers at Vanderbilt University unveiled a new model of cosmic stickiness that favors a "Big Rip" demise of the universe—they have found a...
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