How do you read papers?
Working in science is as much about reading papers as it is about writing papers. There are usually two ways...
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Features explore issues raised by news stories in more depth.
Open Access – what’s in it for me?
Today is Open Access Day1, intended to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access. Many science bloggers have written about Open Access today,and links to a lot of these blog posts have been collected by...
Someone who should have won a Nobel Prize
The 2008 Nobel Prizes will be announced next week, starting with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. There will be a live webcast on Monday at 9:30 AM GMT for those interested1....
Edublogging for beginners
This blog entry is primarily intended for science educators that are interested in starting a blog for their teaching activities. Some of them will not be familiar with blogging and other web 2.0 tools. Not...
Science Blogging in German
Most scientific papers are now published in English, and I believe that this trend is good for international collaboration. Therefore I believe that blogs intended for scientists should also be written in English. The topics and...
We need markup for science blogs
Like many other blogging platforms, Nature Network uses Textile to format blog entries. Textile is a markup language, and Andrew Sun has nicely put together the most important tags in this blog post. Unfortunately, Textile doesn&...