Whether it’s complying with funder mandates, collaborating with colleagues abroad, or trying to discover the right articles, the list of problems facing researchers is ever-growing. Read more
This post originally appeared on Digital Science’s Event Blog: https://www.digital-science.com/blog/events/how-can-hollywood-help-sciamlearning/ … Read more
This year’s SpotOn London conference will take place at the Wellcome Trust on Friday, 14 November and Saturday, 15 November 2014. This year’s theme is on the challenges of balancing the public and the private in the digital age. Read more
Nature Publishing Group’s sister company Digital Science, alongside Ogunte CIC, the organisation for Women Social Entrepreneurs, are hosting a new Impact Women event, to be held in London on October 13th. Read more
What would happen if you lost all of your research data? The loss of scientific data can have a devastating impact on careers. Imagine if you lost all of the research data you’d been diligently collecting for four years. Now imagine the knock-on effect; you wouldn’t get the PhD you’d been working towards and your future career would be impacted. This nightmare situation actually happened to Billy Hinchen. Hear his story. Read more
Here at Digital Science, the younger sibling of Nature Publishing Group, we are always thinking of what we can do to make the lives of scientific researchers more efficient. In light of this mission, back in February 2013 we launched the first of our Digital Science Concepts videos, Touchless, showcasing our thinking on the future of science. The video doesn’t actually include any projects we’re developing but, who knows… maybe one day we will! Read more
At this summer’s Lindau Meeting we focused on pressing world problems and how chemistry can help us to solve them. In four films, laureates and students clash over the future of energy production, grapple with drug development, discuss dwindling supplies of metal catalysts and debate science’s role in the developing world. Get a taster in this trailer. Read more
At this summer’s Lindau Meeting we focused on pressing world problems and how chemistry can help us to solve them. In four films, laureates and students clash over the future of energy production, grapple with drug development, discuss dwindling supplies of metal catalysts and debate science’s role in the developing world. Get a taster in this trailer. Read more
When the Nature Press Office finishes for the day, it’s usually the time to take a break from thinking about science and how to communicate it to the broadest possible audience. However, from today onwards Nature’s Head of Press, Alice Henchley, will commute home with her nose stuck in the best of 2012’s popular science books. Over the coming two months, Alice will be reading and reviewing the runners and riders shortlisted for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Read more