Astronomical phenomena can have some funny names, like the star named ‘Sualocin’ (‘Nicolaus’ spelt backwards), or the nebula called ‘Dark Doodad’.
If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.
The Nature Journal group regularly undertakes a global survey of postgraduate students. I encourage you to submit your thoughts if you are a postgraduate student, or forward the survey on to your students.
Ensuring that your work is reproducible is not as daunting or complicated as you might think.
An open platform that connects researchers to each other and to the datasets and tools they need to achieve scientific breakthroughs.
Usually, an organism’s cells all carry the same genes. In yellow crazy ants, some cells carry only maternal and others only paternal genetic material. Chimerism can happen by accident in nature but these ants rely on chimerism to exist.
Beware your biases – reviewers award higher marks when a paper’s author is famous.
Have you ever wondered how big a bacteria can get before it’s no longer feasible to be a bacteria? Take 11 minutes to learn the answer.
Uni’s want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly support academics to do it? The Conversation explores this question off the back of some new research
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