science 2.0

Foldit was founded by the University of Washington Center for Game Science in collaboration with the Baker lab. In the last decade, scientists repeatedly failed to find a solution to the structure of a protein-cutting enzyme from an AIDS-like virus. The scientists have decided to collect a group of gamers and challenged them to produce an accurate model of the enzyme: users are tasked with folding known proteins and are scored on how well they manage to accomplish this task while taking into consideration the physical properties of the molecule. In less then ten days, the gamers came up with the desired solution.

In occasion of the Haiti earthquake an European Commission's Joint Research Center team used the damage reports mapped on the Ushahidi-Haiti platform to show that this crowdsourced data can help predict the spatial distribution of structural damage in Port-au-Prince

"All models are wrong, but some are useful." So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now.

Goals of the ShanghAI Lectures The ShanghAI Lectures project aims at making education and knowledge on cutting-edge scientific topics accessible to everyone exploring novel methods of knowledge transfer building a sustainable community of students and researchers in the area of Embodied Intelligence overcoming the complexity of a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary learning context bringing global teaching to a new level These lectures about Natural and Artificial Intelligence are held via videoconference at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, the University of Salford/MediaCityUK in the United Kingdom, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and about 12 other universities around the globe. Students from the participating universities work together on the exercises, using a powerful robotics simulator software.

welcome to Project Implicit ! Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaborative network of researchers investigating implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. Project Implicit is the product of a team of scientists whose research produced new ways of understanding attitudes, stereotypes and other hidden biases that influence perception, judgment, and action.

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In the spirit of the well-circulated Facebook friendship map by Paul Butler, research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrix examines scientific collaboration around the world from 2005 to 2009: I was very impressed by the friendship map made by Facebook intern, Paul Buffer [sp] and I realized that I had access to a similar dataset.

Two years after the financial crisis, Wall Street has recovered, but has our economics fundamentally changed? We revisit a 2009 post-crisis interview with pioneering ecological economist Herman Daly who, through the lens of biophysics, urges us to think about economies that flourish - without growth.

By: Adrienne J. Burke | posted April 16, 2010 Surely you've noticed: The scientific community is undergoing a research-and-data-sharing sea change. Perhaps slower to take to Web-based dissemination than some professions, science-the endeavor for which the World Wide Web was developed-has gradually been adopting new online methods for distributing knowledge.

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Aims to improve access to scientific research data for Canadians and provide resources to guide data management activities. Browse Data Sets Access Canadian scientific, technical and medical (STM) data sets from a broad range of scientific disciplines. Data Management and Curation A resource for researchers looking for information on policies and best practices to guide their data management and curation activities.

Policies that request and require investigators to share research data are becoming more common. This research study, The impact of public data archiving policies on attitudes, experiences, and practices of authors, explores the impact of journal policies on the experiences, attitudes, and practices of active scientists.

Posted by Tom Kalil on March 29, 2012 at 09:23 AM EDT [Editor's Note: Watch the live webcast today at 2pm ET of the Big Data Research and Development event athttp://live.science360.gov/bigdata/ ] Today, the Obama Administration is announcing the "Big Data Research and Development Initiative."

Changing the way scientific knowledge is produced, disseminated, evaluated, and consumed.

In 1981, the New England Journal of Medicine published a Harvard study that showed an unexpected link between drinking coffee and pancreatic cancer. As it happened, researchers were anticipating a connection between alcohol or tobacco and cancer. But according to the survey of several hundred patients, booze and cigarettes didn't seem to increase your risk.