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GetFTR, the service designed to simplify the researcher's journey from discovery to access, has unveiled its latest innovation—the GetFTR Browser Extension. This freely available extension enhances researchers' ability to identify and access content they are entitled to read when using major discovery resources such as Google Scholar, Google Search, Web of Science, PubMed, Primo, EBSCO Discovery Service, Lens, Summon, and more. The extension is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers.
Loe edasi: GetFTR Revolutionizes Research Access with New Browser Extension
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Tallinn, Estonia - In an exciting venture into the realm of sustainable innovation, NEXPO Tallinn emerges as a pivotal component of the European Green Capital 2023 program. Set to unfold from November 13 to 17, 2023, this exhibition stands as a testament to the growing influence of green technology, featuring best practices and cutting-edge ideas from experts, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
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Official educational materials aimed at teaching India’s students about Chandrayaan-3, the nation’s third lunar exploration mission, are drawing sharp criticism from some of the nation’s scientists. The teaching guides contain technical errors, misleading content, and pseudoscientific claims rooted in religious texts, the critics say.
Loe edasi: ‘Deeply troubling.’ Indian scientists slam teaching materials on Moon mission
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A 17-year project to craft a synthetic genome for yeast cells has reached a watershed. Researchers revealed this week in 10 new papers that they have created designer versions of all yeast chromosomes and incorporated almost half of them into cells that can survive and reproduce. “It’s a milestone we have been working on for a long time,” says geneticist Jef Boeke of NYU Langone Health, director of the project.
Loe edasi: Synthetic yeast project unveils cells with 50% artificial DNA
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The antifungal Amphotericin B (AmB) is an old and effective drug—it saved many COVID-19 patients whose compromised immune systems failed to stop secondary fungal infections. But it sometimes causes life-threatening kidney damage. Now, after more than a decade of sleuthing into this toxicity, researchers have not only found an explanation, but used it to devise a powerful antifungal alternative without any obvious side effects in mice and human cells. And the strategy that led to the discovery of the compound, described today in Nature, may offer a route for detoxifying other antimicrobial drugs.
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After months of tense negotiations and a barely averted strike, this week postdocs and associate researchers at Columbia University agreed to a contract that will boost their minimum salary by $10,000, to $70,000, and provide other benefits, including a $5000 child care allowance. Credit goes to their labor union, which formed in 2018, says Elsy El Khoury, a chemistry postdoc and a union organizing committee member. “We got to where we got because we were ready to strike.”
Loe edasi: As student and postdoc unions proliferate, academia is scrambling to adapt
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The study conducted by scientists Leigh-Ann Butler, Lisa Matthias, Marc-André Simard, Philippe Mongeon, Stefanie Haustein aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley between 2015 and 2018.
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A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT, according to a study published on 6 November in Cell Reports Physical Science. The specialized classifier, which outperformed two existing artificial intelligence (AI) detectors, could help academic publishers to identify papers created by AI text generators.
Loe edasi: ‘ChatGPT detector’ CATCHES AI-GENERATED PAPERS WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCURACY
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An unpublished analysis shared with Nature suggests that over the past two decades, more than 400,000 research articles have been published that show strong textual similarities to known studies produced by paper mills. Around 70,000 of these were published last year alone. The analysis estimates that 1.5–2% of all scientific papers published in 2022 closely resemble paper-mill works. Among biology and medicine papers, the rate rises to 3%.