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The long trek toward practical fusion energy passed a milestone last week when the world’s newest and largest fusion reactor fired up. Japan’s JT-60SA uses magnetic fields from superconducting coils to contain a blazingly hot cloud of ionized gas, or plasma, within a doughnut-shaped vacuum vessel, in hope of coaxing hydrogen nuclei to fuse and release energy. The four-story-high machine is designed to hold a plasma heated to 200 million degrees Celsius for about 100 seconds, far longer than previous large tokamaks.
Loe edasi: First plasma fired up at world’s largest fusion reactor
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Anna Hughes advises UKRI-funded researchers on how to prepare their work in 10 simple steps
From 1 January 2024, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s new open access policy will apply to monographs, book chapters and edited collections as well as journals. The policy aims to ensure that research findings funded with public money can be accessed by anyone for information or for building upon.
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Here are 10 literature search tools that will make your scientific literature search faster and more convenient. All of the presented literature review software is free and follows Open Science principles.
Loe edasi: 10 Open Science tools for literature review you should know about
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In a world where generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly advancing and reshaping the landscape of research and information dissemination, it is crucial to ensure responsible and ethical use of this technology. Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we create and access information, but it also presents significant risks, including the spread of misinformation and biases in scientific knowledge. In this context, we introduce the concept of "Living Guidelines" for the responsible use of generative AI in research.
Loe edasi: Living guidelines for generative AI — why scientists must oversee its use
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Just like most aspects of academia, the order of authorship for a scientific paper is a bizarre combination of essential and arbitrary. If you’re new to science, you may be wondering what the big deal is. After all, when you read an article in a normal magazine—the kind of magazine that doesn’t have tiny, crammed-together figures and 30-word titles—you see the name of a single author, or maybe two, and that’s who wrote the article. Full stop. There is absolutely nothing controversial to discuss.
Loe edasi: Why scientific journal authorship practices make no sense et al.
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OAPEN and CLOCKSS have developed a strategic relationship for the long-term preservation of Open Access books! What better way to celebrate World Preservation Day?
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Worried that bioterrorists will take advantage of the growing ease of creating risky pathogens in the lab, federal officials are beefing up guidelines for companies that sell nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. The recommendations, released earlier this month, update the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS’s) 13-year-old guidance for screening orders to cover more forms of DNA and RNA, as well as new desktop devices for printing these molecular blueprints. Yet the guidelines will remain voluntary under HHS’s plan, disappointing some biosecurity experts.
Loe edasi: U.S. urges DNA synthesis firms to ramp up screening for biosecurity threats
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Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of the prominent open-access journal eLife and longtime critic of traditional journals, says he is losing that job for publicly endorsing a satirical article that criticized people dying in Gaza for not condemning the recent attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas.
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For millennia, the Passamaquoddy people used their intimate understanding of the coastal waters along the Gulf of Maine to sustainably harvest the ocean’s bounty. Anthropologist Darren Ranco of the University of Maine hoped to blend their knowledge of tides, water temperatures, salinity, and more with a Western approach in a project to study the impact of coastal pollution on fish, shellfish, and beaches.
Loe edasi: Can Indigenous knowledge and Western science work together? New center bets yes