Research

UK company develops a $900 fast, portable, and disposable DNA sequencer to support genome research and personalized medicine.

I have a new paper appearing at IEEE S&P with Hristo Paskov, Neil Gong, John Bethencourt, Emil Stefanov, Richard Shin and Dawn Song on Internet-scale authorship identification based on stylometry, i.e., analysis of writing style. Stylometric identification exploits the fact that we all have a ‘fingerprint’ based on our...

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

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All it took was a compelling title: 'How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did'

High socioeconomic status individuals are significantly more likely to engage in unethical behavior, according to a study from UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto, published in the current <em>PNAS</em>.

About 6,000 medical and science researchers have boycotted one of the world's largest academic publishers over its fees and its alleged push against open access to published research.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stunned scientists by canceling the four-year program less than three weeks before the deadline for grant proposals

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The UK government, following the lead of the US's National Institutes of Health and several foundations, is considering mandating the research it funds be made open access. To help share unpublished data, they're talking to Jimmy Wales.

A series of new experiments shows that analytic thinking can override intuitive assumptions, including those that underlie religious belief

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Mozilla is working with numerous educators, professors and researchers across the world, both to bring open-source, the open web and web technologies into the classroom, and to bring the contributions of students and their mentors to the world. You can be a part of this, and your field does not have to be Computer Scie...

By Sebastian Anthony on December 6, 2011 at 10:38 am

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society...

Mathematical analysis adds to growing body of work questioning the negative results of a life-detection experiment 36 years ago.

Anastas is leaving EPA to return to academia but still maintains that green chemistry

There is a brewing controversy surrounding the data that cellular operators and cellphone manufacturers know about users. It has started with researcher and coder Trevor Eckhart, known as TrevE on the XDA Developer forums, digging into the code of a company called Carrier IQ (CIQ). According to Eckhart's research, CIQ has...