By Mark Staniland on 12 Oct 2017
As part of Springer Nature plans to celebrate the theme of Peer Review Week 2017 “Transparency in peer review”, we organised an event for researchers to discuss what transparency in peer review means to them and ways this might be achieved. The event on September 15th was kindly hosted by University College London with over 70 researchers attending including students, post-docs and professors. Read more
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By Mark Staniland on 02 Dec 2016
Dr Overbaugh was presented with the award in Seattle on 1 December by Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature. These annual awards are hosted by Nature to champion the importance of mentoring and inspiring early-career scientists. You can read the full announcement here. Read more
Posted in Events, Nature Research | Tagged mentoring, nature awards for mentoring in science, Washington
By Mark Staniland on 30 Nov 2016
Professor Forsburg was presented with the award in Los Angeles on 28 November by Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature. These annual awards are hosted by Nature to champion the importance of mentoring and inspiring early-career scientists scientists. You can read the full announcement here. Read more
Posted in Events, Nature Research | Tagged California, nature awards for mentoring in science, USC
By Mark Staniland on 11 Nov 2016
Next week, the winner of the 2016 John Maddox Prize for standing up for science will be announced. The prize is unique in that it rewards not just sound science and evidence, but courage and communication. Living in an era recently pronounced to be “post-truth” recognising those individuals who share their work, even in the face of challenge and personal attacks, feels more relevant than ever. Read more
Posted in Events, Nature Research | Tagged #awards, john maddox, senseaboutscience
By Lillienne Zen on 28 Oct 2016
The STEM Summit 4.0 – The Power of Data was held by Scientific American and Macmillan Learning at the New York Academy of Sciences on October 14, 2016. Hosted by Susan Winslow, Managing Director, Macmillan Learning, and Mariette DiChristina, Editor in Chief, Scientific American, the summit aimed to further collaboration between educators, entrepreneurs and public policy leaders, and to highlight how data can impact and transform the way that people teach and learn. Read more
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By Lillienne Zen on 03 Oct 2016
World-changing ideas may just come from our youngest scientists. This year’s winners of the annual Google Science Fair—including the winners of the Scientific American Innovators Award—were announced this week at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The event is the largest online science fair in the world, and since its inception in 2011 more than 30,000 teenagers have submitted projects in almost every country. Read more
Posted in Events, Science festivals, Video and podcasts | Tagged google science fair, scientific american
By Lillienne Zen on 19 Oct 2015
As the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second most common cancer overall, breast cancer remains a fact of life. Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach | Tagged BCRF, breast cancer, npj, open access
By Lillienne Zen on 12 Oct 2015
Quantum technology research is currently maturing towards commercialization, a development fuelled by major investments from governments and companies. The UK alone invested £270 million in the National Quantum Technologies Programme, an ambitious endeavour involving a national network of universities and companies, to explore the properties of quantum mechanics and how they can be harnessed for use in technology. It looks like we are not far from a second quantum revolution; exploiting the laws of quantum mechanics for unprecedented innovations may become reality in the not-so-distant future and it may soon be time for large-scale investment in quantum technology start-ups with global reach. Read more
Posted in Events | Tagged Communities Happenings, entrepreneur first, innovation uk, physics
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
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach, Science education, Science festivals | Tagged Communities Happenings, experiments, iyl2015, light, physics, science communication
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
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach, Science education, Science festivals | Tagged Communities Happenings, experiments, iyl2015, light, physics, science communication