Science X Dialog
Science X Dialog is where researchers can share news and information about their own published journal articles.
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Dialog / Disparity in open access practices in the earth sciences
In our article just released at European Science Editing, we examine open access (OA) publication practices in earth sciences journals in six countries around the world. Until the earth sciences community decides to move ...
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Dialog / Approaching zero: Super-chilled mirrors edge toward the borders of gravity and quantum physics
The LIGO gravitational wave observatory in the United States is so sensitive to vibrations it can detect the tiny ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. These waves are caused by colliding black holes and other ...
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Dialog / Disparity in awards for geochemistry
Diversity drives innovative research at every step along the scientific path. Scientific societies, like the Geochemical Society (GS) and the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), have a significant influence over which ...
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Dialog / Seeing the invisible: Tiny crystal films could make night vision an everyday reality
It's a familiar vision to anyone who has watched a lot of action movies or played Call of Duty: a ghostly green image that makes invisible objects visible. Since the development of the first night-vision devices in the mid-1960s, ...
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Dialog / A quantum hack for microscopes can reveal the undiscovered details of life
You've probably seen images of scientists peering down a microscope, looking at objects invisible to the naked eye. Indeed, microscopes are indispensable to our understanding of life.
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Dialog / Introducing Australotitan: Australia's largest dinosaur yet spanned the length of 2 buses
Today, a new Aussie dinosaur is being welcomed into the fold. Our study published in the journal PeerJ documents Australotitan cooperensis—Australia's largest dinosaur species ever discovered, and the largest land-dwelling ...
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Dialog / The wet market sources of COVID-19: Bats and pangolins have an alibi
To date, over 3.5 million people have died from COVID-19. Understanding its origins, with a view to preventing any future such pandemics, is therefore of global importance. COVID-19, known formally as SARS-CoV-2, is a coronavirus, ...
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Dialog / Ancient bilby and bandicoot fossils shed light on the mystery of marsupial evolution
Bilbies and bandicoots are less famous than koalas and kangaroos, but several species of these small Australian marsupials are highly threatened. Most of us are unlikely to encounter the nocturnal mammals in the wild, though ...
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Dialog / NASA is returning to Venus, where surface temperatures are 470 degrees Celsius—will we find life when we get there?
NASA has selected two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to study the "lost habitable" world of Venus. Each mission will receive approximately US$500 million for development and both are expected to launch between 2028 ...
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Dialog / A new way to remove salts and toxic metals from water
Most people on Earth get fresh water from lakes and rivers. But these account for only 0.007% of the world's water. As the human population has grown, so has demand for fresh water. Now, two out of every three people in the ...
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Dialog / Humans have lived in the shadow of the Himalayas for more than 5,000 years
Few parts of the world would seem as inhospitable to humans as the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau, near the Himalayas. Archaeologists have long wondered when, where and how our ancestors began to explore and occupy these ...
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Dialog / Legal mining increasingly ravages forests in megadiversity hotspot
Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world and around half of its land territory is forest-covered. Deforestation is one of the biggest worldwide threats not only for biodiversity but also for climate. In ...