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The UC San Diego Library first awarded the Art of Science Prize in 2021 to raise awareness of both the aesthetic value of research imagery and the campus library’s research data curation services

With a new platform for archiving and publishing research data, Research Data Repository (RDR), KU Leuven is making it possible for researchers to keep their data safe for years while making it accessible to fellow researchers worldwide. Research data is the precious raw material of many scientific publications. It often takes a lot of time and money to collect, structure and analyse the data. If scientists share that data with each other more, the benefits are enormous.

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #8, 2021 Ground truths on warming When we think about rapid climate change of the kind weve accidentally unleashed and the warming of Earth systems inherent in the process, we tend to focus on phenomena in order of their immediate tangibility, their drama. Sea ice loss in the Arctic, atmospheric and ocean warming, more ephemeral but dramatic events such as droughts and and fires dominate our perceptions. Cuesta-Valero et al offer a refined estimate and r...