Launching our newest Collection, these three articles aim to explain how to set up and administrate Core Facilities in order to make best use of the large selection of data and tools in the public domain.
Launching our newest Collection, these three articles aim to explain how to set up and administrate Core Facilities in order to make best use of the large selection of data and tools in the public domain.
One of the most significant decisions we face as scientists comes at the end of our formal education. Choosing between industry and academia is easy for some, incredibly fraught for others." In our latest "Ten Simple Rules" Editorial, David Searls offers guidance on this important choice.
Vegetation forms a major feature of the world revealed to bats by echolocation. In this article, Yovel et al. show that physical properties of different plants can explain features of the echoes received and that this information is optimized by the bats' sensory systems.
Nicholas J. Savill, William Chadwick & Sarah E. Reece (University of Edinburgh) test competing hypotheses about the nature of the mechanisms that govern the red blood cell population, which should further our understanding of diseases such as malaria.
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Dean, Forger & Klerman present a method of automatically determining the proper timing of light stimuli to offset the disruption caused by travel & shift work. This allows the body to reset the circadian clock to local time, encouraging a good night's sleep.
Photo credit: MarinaAvila on flickr
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