New Journal and New Determination in Time for Parkinson’s Awareness Month
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Pushing the limits – Light in the 21st Century
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
Update on Scientific Reports Fast Track Experiment
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
Back to light, back to reality
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
From the Big Bang to atomic clocks
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
Into the laser era
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
Betwixt and between
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
Flash forward: new surprises with light
This week’s entries for the poll of the most beautiful experiments with light occurred around the turn of the 19th century. Read more
npj Parkinson’s Disease: Opening Up Access to Scientists and Patients Alike
Many scientists, as evidenced by recent discussions, appreciate the value of an open access journal – the convenience of being able to immediately and freely access the latest articles, for example, and the value in a freer exchange of scientific ideas. But what may be less obvious is why this matters to the community served by the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) – the patients whose lives are directly impacted by the advances and disappointments in Parkinson’s disease research. Read more
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