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Balzan prizes of nearly $1 million awarded for democracy studies and advances in leukemia treatment
American historian Josiah Ober, whose studies of Athenian democracy provide insights into current political crises, and U.S. immunologist Carl H.... Read more -
'Correcting The Map': reshaping perceptions of Africa
The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa.... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Ant species clones workers; a primordial black hole candidate; an anti-tumor carotenoid
This week: Researchers reported that evolutionary mutations are genome-driven, not random. Quantum physicists observed the magnetic nucleus of an atom... Read more -
Eiffel Tower to honor 72 women scholars to ensure gender parity
Gustave Eiffel, who designed France's world-famous monument, had the names of 72 scholars inscribed on the base of the tower... Read more -
Lost for 50 years, Nobel patents found in Swedish summer home
A dozen patents belonging to Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel and lost for almost 50 years were recently found... Read more -
Chinese cluster now world's top innovation hotspot: UN
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday.... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Human impacts on reef systems; testing AI systems; a woman with perfect memory
The week in science: UK fishermen are reporting a massive octopus bloom in the waters off southwest England. Researchers found... Read more -
World maps get Africa's size wrong: Cartographers explain why fixing it matters
The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to... Read more -
New AI tool can spot shady science journals and safeguard research integrity
One of the big benefits of open-access journals is that they make research articles freely and immediately available to everyone... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Beyond general relativity; gas giants and dark energy; the pleasures of difficult hobbies
This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least... Read more -
How bad science is becoming big business
Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry.... Read more -
Saturday Citations: A new category of supernovas; neurons beat machine learning; depression and vitiligo
Based on simulations, researchers report that the next big earthquake along the San Andreas fault is unlikely to resemble previous... Read more -
Study pits super-recognizers against digitally manipulated face images
Some people never forget a face. This is an ability police forces around the world find very useful. It now... Read more -
Remains of British researcher lost in 1959 recovered from Antarctic glacier
The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Video games and brain activity; a triple black hole system; neutralizing Skynet
It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of Mars,... Read more
