EuroScientist journal

EuroScientist journal. Science's Minority Talent Pool Is Growing—but Draining Away The number of Ph.D. graduates from underrepresented groups grew by 9x since 1980, but the number of assistant professors from those groups grew by just 2.6x. The Power of Big Data Must be Harnessed for Medical Progress But grave challenges remain before the promise of individually tailored medicine becomes reality. The Best European Cities to Launch a Start-up A good idea is important of course, but much of the success of a start-up enterprise relies on it setting up in the right place. The New Digital Divide Raises Questions About Future Academic Research Without access to large companies' datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations. ... New Study May Explain Why Peer Review in Science Often Fails Twenty percent of medical researchers do up to 95 percent of the peer reviewing. Researcher in Legal Battle to Keep Her Interviews Confidential A judge has ordered Marie-Ève Maille to provide names and transcripts from her study on a wind farm ... Long Research Titles ‘Have Lower Impact’ Lengthy titles of journal papers are a turn-off for fellow academics and lead to fewer citations, claims new analysis ... Peer-Review 'Heroes' Do Lion's Share of the Work 20% of the scientists undertook between 69% and 94% of reviews last year. Under Trump, Scientists May Get a Break on Data-Sharing The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is ... Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes. ... Science's Minority Talent Pool Is Growing—but Draining Away The number of Ph.D. graduates from underrepresented groups grew by 9x since 1980, but the number of assistant professors from those groups grew by just 2.6x.