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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Support has been swelling for open-access scientific publishing IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science. Morally, taxpayers who wish to should be able to [...]

  The Latest Streaming News: Free Online Research updated minute-by-minute     The move reflects a groundswell of support for ”open access” publishing among academics The British government has revealed controversial plans to make publicly [...]

Photographs of natural scenes are basic knowledge, and no one should own that   Leigh Beadon over at Techdirt has an unconventional response to the LA Times ant story involving an artist who sketched one [...]

Last semester he taught 100,000 in an online course on machine learning   Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the [...]

Physicians still make decisions without access to the synthesised evidence they need Australian researchers are calling for the open sharing of clinical trial data in the medical research community, saying it would be instrumental in [...]

Make courses from both schools available to people around the world for free Distance learners rejoice! Harvard University and MIT jointly announced their new non-profit edX online learning initiative in Cambridge earlier today, which aims [...]