Research Transparency in Psychology | Brian Nosek (University of Virginia)
My name is Brian Nosek. I am on the Faculty at the University of Virginia, in the Department of Psychology. I am also Director of the Center for Open Science. The Center has a mission of increasing op...
Why Is Public Research Important For Our Future? Researchers reflect on the long-term benefits on investing in public research to create the tools and opportunities needed for future applications. Int...
Detection of Fungi in Breath - Alya Bhimji - University of Toronto
Detection of Fungi in Breath - Alya Bhimji - University of Toronto. Difficulties in diagnosing fungal infections, especially invasive aspergillosis, warrant new testing methods and noninvasive samplin...
Video abstract: Potential relative misidentification in familial searching
Video abstracts for my paper "The influence of relatives on the efficiency and error rate of familial searching" with Erin Murphy, Yun Song, and Monty Slatkin. ...
Editor's summary in Science:
Increasing temperatures and declines
One aspect of climate change is an increasing number of days with extreme heat. Soroye et al. analyzed a large dataset of bumble bee ...
The mathematics of infinity and research on operator algebra theory
Many fields of mathematics are hundreds, or even thousands, of years old. By contrast, the Katsura Group researches operator algebra theory, which is a relatively new field, arising in 1929. It was or...
Driving a Safer and Greener Future. Autonomous cars could benefit our health and our planet, but perfecting the systems that will make them run is a titanic challenge....
Bacteria can exchange their membrane proteins through extracellular vesicles. Sigal Ben-Yehuda and her group from Jerusalem University show that phages take advantage of this exchange and infect resis...
