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NASA: Earth Just Dodged Comms-Killing Solar Blast In 2012

Iain Thomson | The Register | March 19, 2014

The Register, March 19, 2014-A new analysis of data from NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) by Chinese and Berkeley helioboffins shows that a July 2012 solar storm of unprecedented size would have wiped out global electronic systems if it had occurred just nine days earlier.

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Nature Communications Goes Open Access

Liat Clark | WIRED UK | September 23, 2014

Nature Communications has announced it will go open access only from 20 October in a bid to show the world that quality papers do not have to be paid for...

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Open Access Papers ‘Gain More Traffic And Citations’

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | July 30, 2014

Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.

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Predicting Antibiotic Resistance

Press Release | RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center | December 17, 2014

Treating bacterial infections with antibiotics is becoming increasingly difficult as bacteria develop resistance not only to the antibiotics being used against them, but also to ones they have never encountered before. By analyzing genetic and phenotypic changes in antibiotic-resistant strains of E. coli, researchers at the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) in Japan have revealed a common set of features that appear to be responsible for the development of resistance to several types of antibiotics...

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Researchers 3-D Print Liver-Like Device To Detoxify Blood

James Temple | Re/Code | May 9, 2014

Researchers at UC San Diego have developed a 3-D-printed device that can detoxify blood in much the same manner as the liver, using nanoparticles to lure and trap toxins that damage cells...

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Top Scientific Publisher Chooses Not To Advance Open Access

Jon Tennant | The Conversation | September 3, 2014

Access to research is limited worldwide by the high cost of subscription journals, which force readers to pay for their content. The use of scientific research in new studies, educational material and news is often restricted by these publishers, who require authors to sign over their rights and then control what is done with the published work...

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