Frangioni’s approach is quite different. One of the main forces driving the move to open access is the idea that if the public has already paid for research through taxation or philanthropy, then it’s not [...]

A newly developed synthetic mat for roofs could one day help to cool down buildings without using up electricity. Sweating is a conceivably simple and efficient process for cooling down the body. People and animals [...]

A consortium has brokered an agreement with 12 journals to ensure that nearly all particle physics articles are made immediately free on journal Web sites The entire field of particle physics is set to switch [...]

A new generation of assessment tools are hoping to piggyback off the wealth of online rating software to find a better and more efficient method of assessing students. The world is caught up in an [...]

It is no secret that many people in the Big Six publishing houses do not understand or do not care for the lending of ebooks. This has made the shift from physical to digital very difficult [...]

Australia’s been an interesting country to follow on the copyright front. In terms of court decisions, there have been some good ones and some awful ones. On the lawmaking front, we’ve seen ridiculous ideas floated and good ones as [...]

Has become a de facto standard that assists laboratories and microscope companies Ignacio Arganda, a young researcher from San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid) working for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is one of [...]

Head off a patent law that he says will favor big companies and hurt lone inventors like himself In Silicon Valley, Apple just won big against Samsung in the patent lawsuit of the year, after trading claims [...]

Many innovators don’t want to patent their creations It might be a heretical idea for readers of this magazine, but law professor Jason Schultz says that many innovators don’t want to patent their creations. He [...]

In horror movies, the scariest moments usually come from the monster you can’t see. So the same goes for real life, or at least online life. Over the past few years, largely out of sight, [...]

We’re charging headlong into a future filled with one-way mirrors behind which the rich spy on the poor, and the strong on the weak. Last week Wikileaks–remember them?–released a sheaf of documents about the Trapwire [...]

It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it [...]