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The Promise of Augmented Reality
Replacing the real world with a virtual one is a neat trick. Combining the two could be more useful.
Lifelong Learning Is Becoming an Economic Imperative
Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment, says Andrew Palmer.
Lifelong Learning Is Becoming an Economic Imperative
Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment.
A Blueprint for Getting More Women into Information Technology
How to address high tech’s missing XX factor
Million-dollar babies
Million-dollar babies
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars
The Breakthrough Prizes Attempt to Upstage the Nobels
Move over, Alfred... Yuri Milner, a technology billionaire, wants to turn scientists into celebrities.
Why Research Papers Have So Many Authors
Scientific publications are getting more and more names attached to them
The Watchers on the Web
A court case may define the limits of anonymous scientific criticism
Tested, and Found Wanting
Tested, and Found Wanting
Half of clinical trials do not have their results published. Those behind the TrialsTracker, a web tool created by the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, at Oxford University, hope to change this.
Graphic details
A scientific study of the importance of diagrams to science
Schrödinger’s panda
Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back
Crazy diamonds
Billionaires are funding lots of grandiose plans. Welcome their ambition
Million-dollar babies
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars
In death, there is life
Big-name scientists may end up stifling progress in their fields
For my next trick...
Too many medical trials move their goalposts halfway through. A new initiative aims to change that
Of more than academic interest
Of more than academic interest
Professors’ unprofessional programs have created a new profession.
An ounce of prevention
Crises of infectious diseases are becoming more common. The world should be better prepared
What is sonification, and how can it speed discovery in science?
Scientific data might be filled with important things waiting to be discovered.
Taking the online medicine
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
Things are looking app
Mobile health apps are becoming more capable and potentially rather useful
The future of computing
The era of predictable improvement in computer hardware is ending. What comes next?
Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, just won its second Go match against a human
Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, just won its second Go match against a human
The contest is another milestone in AI as Lee Sedol, Go's best player, is defeated again
