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A group of scientists investigated how ants can locate their anthills after travelling long distances in search of food. Using path integration, ants can locate a point…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 17, 2022
- 649 views
A team of researchers recently published a study1 that classifies 7,414 vocal expressions from 400 pigs, using AI, into positive and negative emotions. It gives the…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 10, 2022
- 723 views
Being an independent researcher may have different implications based on your current career phase. While funding is often the first thing that comes to mind when we…
- Adita Joshi
- March 10, 2022
- 1k views
In early 2020, Nature announced an opportunity for authors to publish their peer-review exchanges with reviewers as an attempt to bring transparency to the peer review…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 8, 2022
- 644 views
The leaky pipeline is often cited as an obstacle to gender equity in STEM fields, with various reasons attributed to why women leave STEM. On International Women's Day…
- Mriganka Awati
- March 8, 2022
- 822 views
OP Publishing has withdrawn 350 papers from two 2021 conference proceedings as evidence of systematic manipulation and considerable citation manipulation were observed…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 3, 2022
- 779 views
Dr. Jacob Wikham, an ecologist and journal editor, talks about his career as a field biologist and what has kept him going. Read on to know more about his life and…
- Jacob Wickham
- March 2, 2022
- 1.3k views
An analysis of more than 37,000 articles reveals that authors from low-income countries opt to publish in paywalled journals over open access journals. Rafael Zenni,…
- Malvika Gaur
- February 25, 2022
- 674 views
Hedging is common in academic writing. But is it appropriate? And, if yes, how much should you hedge? This post explains it all.
- Yateendra Joshi
- February 24, 2022
- 1.5k views
The US State Department announced its withdrawal of the Fulbright Scholarship program from Afghanistan last month for the academic year 2022-23. It stated “significant…
- Malvika Gaur
- February 18, 2022
- 683 views