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As a musician, and director of the Multiverse Concert Series – a non-profit organization that combines music and science in live performances – I strive to create musical metaphors for science dreams and descriptions to share with the audience I am I think bringing artists and scientists together on stage can help them communicate the … Read more
Art can be a powerful medium for discovering the deeper meaning of scientific endeavor. Collaboration between scientists and artists is underway around the world, and daily postings on social media with the #SciArt hashtag show that often-different domains are merging in a refreshing and exciting way. Although many such collaborations primarily aim to engage and … Read more
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
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:- 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
I am a business developer at the Catalos Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, Spain. My job is to help scientists market their ideas and inventions. Recently, most of those ideas have included graphene, a layer of carbon that is just one atom thick. Graphene is hard but very flexible like a diamond. … Read more
As my intro slide changed the scene in front of the audience, I felt distant. Following in my footsteps, I introduced myself to my department’s annual ‘Aap ko kho jaata hai’ and networking retreat. “Hey, some of you may remember me as Liz, but I’m transitioning. My name is Robin! I’m from East Los Angeles … Read more
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
Even in the region of far central Brazil, the Chapada dos Vederios, a mountainous land of waterfalls and the occasional jaguar philosophy, is very much dependent on interactions with science people. In ‘normal’ times, Raisa Viera, an ecologist at the International Institute for Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, will be known as a regular resident, … Read more
An analysis of more than 26 million scientific studies published by more than 4 million researchers between 2000 and 2015 found that as of 2015, the top 1% of most cited authors accounted for 21% of all citations. This citation disparity has become more extreme over time, and the share of citations from US-based scientists … Read more