By Rachel Scheer on 01 May 2015
Guest blog by Liesbeth Venema … Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 22 Apr 2015
Contributor: James Beck, Ph.D. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 21 Apr 2015
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By Alex Jackson on 09 Apr 2015
This week we conclude our series of ‘beautiful experiments with light’ featured in our poll and finally reach the new millennium in which lasers continue to enable powerful and diverse experiments. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 08 Apr 2015
On Tuesday 24th March we introduced a small-scale, one month experiment on fast track peer review (up to 40 manuscripts maximum), which would enable authors to receive a first decision within three weeks of passing our quality control checks. You can read our original post on this here. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 02 Apr 2015
The experiments in this week ’s blog entry accompanying our poll of ‘ the most beautiful experiment with light’ were carried out in the second half of the twentieth century, in which physicists were still struggling to accept the counter-intuitive implications of quantum physics. Read more
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By Rachel Scheer on 27 Mar 2015
There is a post on the Scholarly Kitchen blog this week that asks: “how can we improve the article review and submission process?” For all of us involved in scientific and scholarly publishing, it has long been accepted that peer review is necessary and beneficial in ensuring the quality of scientific communication. But it is also seen by many as an imperfect system: less efficient than it should be and sometimes frustratingly slow. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 26 Mar 2015
We kick off this week’s experiments for our poll with the discovery of a special kind of light: cosmic microwave background. The story of this discovery is a beautiful example of the fortuity of scientific discovery. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 19 Mar 2015
This week’s set of experiments featured in our poll are all about the advent of the maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) and the optical maser, now known as the laser, and the remarkable wide impact these inventions had in science, technology and society. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 12 Mar 2015
In last week’s post you heard about beautiful experiments with light featured in our poll from the turn of the century. This week, we will talk about the time until the 1950s. And, while so many turning points in politics and history fall into that period, advances in optics and photonics were a bit betwixt and between. Scientists were modernizing their methods and instruments but still didn’t have modern-day tools like the laser, which in the 1960s would completely transform light-related research. Read more
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