By Alex Jackson on 28 Feb 2014
In week seven of the Of Schemes and Memes blog series, which features weekly interviews with the art team at Nature, Art Director Kelly Krause and Cover Designer Brad Baxley explain the decisions behind this week’s futuristic front cover on quantum droplets. Also, in this week’s blog, Mackillo Kira, one of the paper’s authors, explains the scientific process behind the research. Read more
Posted in Featured, Nature Covers, Nature Graphics, Science communication and outreach, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Communities Happenings, graphics, nature covers
By Steven Hurst on 24 Feb 2014
A new version of the NatureJournals app – ‘2.5.1’ for all you software versioning fans – went live in the App Store last week. Nature Chemistry is the new title on the app block, taking the total number of Nature-branded research and review journals to 34 (and Scientific Reports too). The all-singing, all-dancing NatureJournals app replaces the Nature.com Reader app, which has been sent off to silicon heaven with a pat on the back for long service and an invite for dinner with Bebo. If you’re an existing Nature.com Reader user – fear not! All existing subscriptions will be honoured in the NatureJournals app. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 21 Feb 2014
In week six of the latest Of Schemes and Memes blog series, which features weekly interviews with the art team at Nature, Art Director Kelly Krause explains the decisions behind this week’s striking front cover image focusing on emerging honeybee diseases. Read more
Posted in Nature Covers, Nature Graphics, Science communication and outreach, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Communities Happenings, graphics, nature covers
By Alex Jackson on 20 Feb 2014
From an early visual representation of a hierarchically ordered universe in Robert Fludd’s ‘Great Chain of Being’ (1617) to a contemporary moving infographic of ocean currents from NASA, a free new exhibition in London shows how visualising data has changed the way we see, interpret and understand the world around us. Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Nature Graphics, Science communication and outreach, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Communities Happenings, exhibitions, graphics, infographics, science communication
By Alex Jackson on 14 Feb 2014
In week five of the new Of Schemes and Memes blog series, which features weekly interviews with the art team at Nature, Art Director Kelly Krause explains the decisions behind this week’s front cover image on Atomtronics. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 07 Feb 2014
In week four of the new Of Schemes and Memes blog series, which features weekly interviews with the art team at Nature, Art Director Kelly Krause explains the decisions behind this week’s front cover image on drought and the Amazonian forest. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 03 Feb 2014
Guest Post from Nathan Westgarth of Digital Science, the younger sibling business of Nature Publishing Group. Read more
Posted in Digital Science, Featured, Science communication and outreach, Uncategorized | Tagged Communities Happenings, data, digital science, science communication