science 2.0

What is TEXTUS? In a nutshell it is an open source platform for working with collections of texts. It harnesses the power of semantic web technologies and delivers them in a simple and intuitive interface so that students, researchers and teachers can share and collaborate around collections of texts. TEXTUS is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Peerage of Science is a community of scientists from 34 countries and over 200 institutions around the world. You may well recognise some of the over 700 Peers. Peerage of Science also involves participating journals and supporting institutions. Also, check out what the community is talking about in the blog.

Share your science and technology through publications, posters, papers, or slides combined with video and science communities.

a blog reporting daily findings from the lab

A few days ago, the Guardian ran a Q&A session with Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. Cox and Forshaw are professors of physics at the University of Manchester, both involved in research with the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. Cox is of course well known for his wonderful media exploits on the BBC.

Seeking proposals on how to implement the Open Source paradigm of the IT industry in the area of Drug Discovery

Bossa is an open-source software framework for distributed thinking - the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks that use human cognition, knowledge, or intelligence. Bossa minimizes the effort of creating and operating a distributed thinking project.

Beginning in 2006, NASA's Stardust@home citizen science project allows anyone with Internet access to help in the search for the first samples of solid matter from outside the solar system. To learn more, including how to participate, please click on the About tab above or on any of the links below under "More Information." Then join the search by following the Get Started steps found to the left of this page; or after registering, read the latest Stardust@home news in our blog below. We look forwarded to working with you on this exciting research!

Beginning in 2006, NASA's Stardust@home citizen science project allows anyone with Internet access to help in the search for the first samples of solid matter from outside the solar system. To learn more, including how to participate, please click on the About tab above or on any of the links below under "More Information."

BOINC harnesses the idle time of participants' computers for a massive, crowdsourced version of distributed computing. This computing power is then marshaled for and made available for virtuous scientific necessities including global warming research, planet discovery, extraterrestrial study, and more. The entities and projects utilizing the BOINC platform to crowdsource their research include SETI, FightAIDS@home, the Collatz Conjecture project and more.

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy: Or, if you run several projects, try an account manager such as GridRepublic or BAM!.

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data

distributed-computing projects in which volunteers download a small piece of software and let their home computers do some extracurricular work when the machines would otherwise be idle (after Nature article of Eric Hand)

When institutional repositories were introduced, many libraries embraced them as a means to support and further the cause of open access and the dissemination of scholarly communication. As has been widely reported, however, faculty did not embrace the concept, and repositories generally have not filled up as envisioned.

Since Google Earth hit the Web in 2005, besides instantly turning all office desk globes into decorative accessories, it has opened the world up to global exploration at the click of a mouse. But it's not just a neat toy; some extraordinary things have been discovered with its one-click access to satellite imagery.

Jimmy Wales, the iconoclastic founder of Wikipedia, made a troubling announcement at the seventh annual Wikipedia conference: Nobody wants to edit Wikipedia anymore. Is Wikipedia going to shrivel up and fade away? Wales told the AP that the number of Wikipedia editors is slowly dwindling.

Definitive answers to the frequently-asked questions of /r/askscience. If you post, please try to use this format: Question in the title TLDR answer Link to detailed answer (on reddit or otherwise) Post sightings of the question seen on reddit.

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Craig Montuori, Caltech class of 2008, knows he should devote every waking moment to the startup he cofounded last year. Yet he compulsively spends two or three hours a day on Quora, a question-and-answer website he describes as "very addictive." Michael Wolfe, an entrepreneur deep into his fourth startup, also can't help himself.