New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
A new field hopes to apply science’s methods to science itself | Science & technology
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A new field hopes to apply science’s methods to science itself | Science & technology
Silicon Valley’s biggest names are backing new ways to organize and fund science research. Some worry their experiments signal a “move fast and break things” approach.
Schmidt Futures—founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy—is spinning out small organizations to make advances in synthetic biology and brain mapping that the current research process isn’t structured to work on.
Federal spending on research is about to get a boost | United States
.github Orbit Orbit is an experimental platform for publishing and engaging with small tasks repeatedly over time. In the short term, it's focused on supporting the "mnemonic medium", a way of augmenting texts so that readers can easily remember all the key details. For an example, see Quantum Country, a textbook on quantum computation. More abstractly, Orbit aspires to offer a more general form of spaced repetition systems like Anki, as part of a connected cloud service. Learn more on the home page. Orbit is a (nascent) ecosystem. At its core are decentralized data structures defining tasks,...