Nigeria tackles publishing in predatory journals
Higher education institutions in Nigeria need to train academics to spot fraudulent journals, researchers say......»»
Corporate insiders disguise share sales with cautious approach to deter predatory short sellers
Company directors, officers or major shareholders, worried that their personal share sales might trigger aggressive short selling from investors tracking their moves, are disguising their trades with a cautious, incremental approach often spread over.....»»
Intelligence emerging from random polymer networks
Reservoir computing (RC) tackles complex problems by mimicking the way information is processed in animal brains. It relies on a randomly connected network that serves as a reservoir for information and ultimately leads to more efficient outputs. For.....»»
Two new species of large predatory dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight
A new study led by palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests that bones found on the Isle of Wight belong to two new species of spinosaurid, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs closely related to the giant Spinosaurus. Their unus.....»»
Elephants strive to cooperate with allies, until the stakes get too high
Asian elephants are keen to cooperate with friends and have evolved strategies to mitigate competition in their social groups, but cooperation breaks down when food resources are limited, according to a study publishing September 28th in the open-acc.....»»
AI may predict the next virus to jump from animals to humans
Most emerging infectious diseases of humans (like COVID-19) are zoonotic—caused by viruses originating from other animal species. Identifying high-risk viruses earlier can improve research and surveillance priorities. A study publishing in PLOS Bio.....»»
Study points out evolution of peer review in academic publishing, problems and alternatives
Ben Merriman has experienced all sides of academic publishing as an author, journal editor and reviewer. That experience, coupled with his research in administrative structures' role in resolving policy conflicts, led the University of Kansas assista.....»»
Friend or foe? Researchers investigate the mysterious microbes living inside corals
In a Pearls article publishing September 16th in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens, Patrick Keeling and colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Canada describe investigations into an enigmatic group of coral-infecting microbes......»»
The Equity crew riffs on the Intuit-Mailchimp news
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We are back! From this morning, I suppose. But the news cycle doesn’t wait for our publishing schedule, so the E.....»»
Fact-checking works to undercut misinformation in many countries
From Argentina to Nigeria, fact-checks limited false beliefs. Enlarge (credit: Gordon Jolly / Flickr) In the wake of the flood of misinformation that's drowning the US, lots of organizations have turned to fact-checks. Many newsrooms set up de.....»»
Daily Crunch: Alerzo lands $10.5 million Series A for digitizing Nigeria’s mom-and-pop stores
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day a.....»»
Alerzo raises $10.5M Series A to bring Nigeria’s informal retail sector online
The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. In fact, it might be the second-best thing after fintech at the moment. Today’s news is from Alerzo, a little-known B2B e-commerce retail s.....»»
Epic Games Store is beta testing game self-publishing similar to Steam Direct
Up until now, developers that wanted to publish games on Epic's store had to rely on an approval process each step of the way. With the new beta, game companies that sign up for it will be able to set up project pages, achievements, and pricing on th.....»»
The fewer forests, the more space giant anteaters need
Giant anteaters living in less forested habitats make use of larger home ranges, according to a study by Aline Giroux at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul and colleagues, publishing August 18 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. This behav.....»»
Pearson To Pay $1 Million Fine for Misleading Investors About 2018 Data Breach
Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student r.....»»
Snopes.com Co-Founder Accused of Copying from Other Sites Without Attribution
The co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes has been accused of publishing articles that are too accurate: copying text from other more authorative web sites. Snopes.com describes them as "sentences or paragraphs from various news sites past.....»»
How Adia Sowho helped steer Thrive Agric through the pandemic crisis
Nigeria’s less than two-decade-old ecosystem is evolving fast. But behind the funding and legitimate hype, there’s without a doubt plenty of learning that needs to be done in running a startup. In retrospect, founders in Nigeria do tremen.....»»
Anatomy of an earthquake series
An international team led by scientists at GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, in collaboration with colleagues by Spanish, Italian and US institutions, is publishing a new scientific work on induced seismicity in Europe in the Journal Nature Communic.....»»
Like humans, apes communicate to start and end social interactions
When we're talking to another person, we probably wouldn't leave without saying goodbye; that would just be impolite. Apes seem to do something similar, researchers report in a study publishing August 11 in the journal iScience, in which they documen.....»»
Shark diversity unaffected when the dinosaurs were wiped out
A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, and large marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. But what happened to the sharks? According to a study of sharks' teeth publishing August 10th in the.....»»
Omnibiz gets $3M to digitize Nigeria’s informal B2B supply chain
Despite the prevalence of shopping malls and the emergence of VC-backed e-commerce companies like Jumia, informal retail in Africa is still king. A 2016 study by PwC states that 90% of sales in Africa’s major economies come through informal cha.....»»