Dear grant agencies: tell me where I went wrong

How IoT is Evolving Agriculture

I am just starting my second year as a research fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. Most of my first year – particularly time spent in lockdown – was devoted to writing grant applications aimed at early career researchers (ECRs). These grants are typically for small amounts (£ 20,000, or less than US $ … Read more

Closing in on a complete human genome

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The human genome is often compared to a landscape, with a complex and diverse topography of genes and regulatory sequences. But in many places, the area is less dramatic vistas and more desert highways: vast and repetitive. Consider a chromosome’s centromere, which connects its two gene-laden arms. Centromeres include thousands of identical homologous α-satellite sequences … Read more

High-Paying Careers for Women

High-Paying Careers for Women:- The gender pay opening perseveres, notwithstanding the way that there’s been some headway. As shown by a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women by and by gain 82 pennies for every dollar acquired by men-20 pennies more than in 1979, the fundamental year for which figures were available.1 But … Read more

How to get started in quantum computing

How to get started in quantum computing

To the untrained eye, a circuit built with IBM’s online Quantum Experience tool looks like something out of an introductory computer-science course. Logic gates, the building blocks of computing, are built on digital canvas, converting the input into output. But it is a quantum circuit, and gates do not modify the common binary 1 or … Read more

Fieldwork at your fingertips: creative methods for social research

How IoT is Evolving Agriculture

We are members of a social-science laboratory in Sydney, Australia, and collectively we research how social factors, such as gender or education, affect health and how people integrate digital technologies into their everyday lives Huh. We have studied topics including smartphone usage, women’s health and fitness practices and how people track self-improvement metrics using smartwatches. … Read more