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By Richard Van Noorden and Nature News Blog | Apr 29, 2013 | 5
A future quantum version of the Internet might be built from diamond crystals used to contact distant quantum networks
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Apr 25, 2013 | 12
The Episciences Project will launch a series of community-run, peer-reviewed, open-access journals that will overlay the arXiv preprint server already widely used by physicists
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Jan 22, 2013 | 2
Questionnaire suggests researchers not as safe as they feel
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Jan 3, 2013 | 4
Key findings and events that may emerge in 2013 concern stem cell trials, gene patents, open-access research papers and an updated U.N. climate assessment
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Jan 2, 2013 | 3
Japanese researchers claim success in creating a third atom of the element, after nine years of searching
By Richard Van Noorden | Sep 27, 2012 | 14
A consortium has brokered an agreement with 12 journals to ensure that nearly all particle physics articles are made immediately free on journal Web sites
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Sep 24, 2012 | 2
A new Research Councils U.K. policy encourages researchers to shun science journals that prohibit authors from following the six-month post-publication mandate
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature News Blog | Jul 16, 2012 | 2
The latest venture is part of an explosion of ideas for open-access publishing of scientific research results
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Jun 12, 2012 | 2
Company founded to commercialize solar hydrogen device goes back to drawing board for cost reasons
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | May 23, 2012 | 7
A look ahead also points to what might be the first commercial firm to fly an unmanned cargo craft to the International Space Station and the first useful artificial genome
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Jan 3, 2012 | 2
A theoretical physicist searched for years to find the only known natural occurrence of an exotic type of structure, the discovery of which netted the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine | Jan 3, 2012 | 7
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