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A future quantum version of the Internet might be built from diamond crystals used to contact distant quantum networks
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
Questionnaire suggests researchers not as safe as they feel
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
Japanese researchers claim success in creating a third atom of the element, after nine years of searching
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
A new Research Councils U.K. policy encourages researchers to shun science journals that prohibit authors from following the six-month post-publication mandate
The latest venture is part of an explosion of ideas for open-access publishing of scientific research results
Company founded to commercialize solar hydrogen device goes back to drawing board for cost reasons
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
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
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