Apple pushes tech careers for women in developer interview feature
Apple is attempting to encourage more women into a career in technology, by publishing a feature on four women who are attempting to "create change and drive culture" via the App Store.[Apple]Tuesday's feature piece, arriving one week after Internati.....»»
Russia fines Wikipedia for publishing facts instead of Kremlin war propaganda
Third fine since Ukraine invasion targets articles about Russian military units. Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony at the Eternal Flame and the Unknown Soldier's grave in Alexander Garden in Moscow, Ru.....»»
Investigating factors that affect consumer attitudes about organic food
Researchers, publishing in the International Journal of Green Economics, have investigated the many factors that affect consumer attitudes and buying habits when it comes to organic food products. Mohd Farhan of the Mittal School of Business in Punja.....»»
Conflicts of interest need to be avoided in publishing publicly available crop information, says study
Satellite-driven crop monitoring has become a main method to derive crop information at local, regional and global scales......»»
In the far-from-diverse publishing industry, sensitivity readers are vital, says researcher
Publishing houses have set the cat among the pigeons. They have introduced "sensitivity readers." Some authors are claiming this amounts to censorship. But what is the truth of this relatively new practice?.....»»
Cockatoos know to bring along multiple tools when they fish for cashews
Goffin's cockatoos have been added to the short list of non-human animals that use and transport toolsets. In a study publishing in the journal Current Biology on February 10, researchers show that the cockatoos carry multiple tools to their worksite.....»»
20,000 premature US deaths caused by human-ignited fires
Over 80% of premature deaths caused by small smoke particles in the United States result directly from human-ignited fires. This is the outcome of a study published today in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters......»»
Could "Peer Community In" be the revolution in scientific publishing we"ve all been waiting for?
In 2017, three researchers from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Denis Bourguet, Benoit Facon and Thomas Guillemaud, founded Peer Community In (PCI), a peer-review-based service for recommending prepr.....»»
How PostScript Kickstarted Desktop Publishing
How PostScript Kickstarted Desktop Publishing.....»»
Whales could be a valuable carbon sink, say scientists
Nature-based solutions to fight climate change take a holistic approach that promotes biodiversity and ecosystem preservation. While many efforts have focused on planting trees or restoring wetlands, researchers publishing in Trends in Ecology and Ev.....»»
For female astronomers, the COVID-19 pandemic widened publishing"s gender gap
Before the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shut down labs and sent scientists home to work, female astronomers on average published about nine papers for every 10 published by men—a rate that has remained stagnant for decades......»»
Octopuses caught on video throwing silt and shells around themselves and at each other
Octopuses appear to deliberately throw debris, sometimes directed at other octopuses, according to a study publishing Nov. 9 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE led by Peter Godfrey-Smith at the University of Sydney and colleagues......»»
Bivalent booster is 4x better against BA.5 in older adults, Pfizer says
But the shots are only effective if people actually get them. Enlarge (credit: Getty | Future Publishing) The new bivalent COVID-19 booster spurred neutralizing antibody levels that were fourfold higher against the omicr.....»»
Gut bacteria are essential for development of social behavior in fish
Microorganisms are essential for normal social development in zebrafish via their influence on pruning of neural connections in the developing brain, according to a study publishing November 1st in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Joseph Bruck.....»»
The feds’ new open-access policy: Who’s gonna pay for it?
Currently, researchers often have to choose between publishing and science. Enlarge / With physical subscriptions becoming increasingly irrelevant, researchers will have to pay more to get their research published. (credit: Xu Wu / Get.....»»
PKI Spotlight updates help PKI admins catch CRL publishing errors
PKI Solutions announced its latest update of PKI Spotlight. PKI Spotlight is a PKI management solution that provides organizations with real-time monitoring and alerts of availabilities, configurations, and security of all their PKI and Hardware Secu.....»»
New "ethics guidance" for top science journals aims to root out harmful research, but can it succeed?
The British journal Nature was founded in 1869 and is one of the world's most influential and prestigious outlets for scientific research. Its publisher, Nature Portfolio (a subsidiary of the academic publishing giant Springer Nature), also publishes.....»»
YouTube experiment makes 4K videos a Premium-exclusive feature
After a 10-ads-per-video experiment earlier, YouTube seems hungry for more subs. Enlarge (credit: Future Publishing | Getty Images) Two months ago, Sundar Pichai announced a new era of belt-tightening at Google, leading to th.....»»
Stephen Welby: A Man on a Mission
In his five years as IEEE’s executive director and chief operating officer, Stephen Welby has led the organization through a global pandemic, a changing publishing landscape, and soaring geopolitical tensions. Welby, an IEEE Fellow, is leaving a.....»»
The next game from the Outriders studio loses Take-Two as its publisher
People Can Fly has been working on Project Dagger for the past two years and now publisher Take-Two Interactive is pulling out of the publishing deal......»»