Measuring the results of scientific research has seen little federal focus until now. Is it possible to create such a system? What would be the inputs, outputs and structure of the system? What ...

It's never been easy to accurately measure the impact of any scientific research, but it's even harder for citizen science projects, which don't follow traditional methods. Public involvement places ...

Measuring the 'wettability' of graphene and other 2D materials. Microscopic understanding of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using 'vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy ...

Reports about the worthy contributions of science to national economies pop up regularly all around the world – from the UK to the US and even the developing world. In Australia, the Office of the ...

In a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we, alongside colleagues from a diverse range of fields, investigate the prevalence and extent of censorship and self-censorship ...

Research into graphene—a sheet of carbon a single atom thick—has yielded measurements of the intrinsic strength of the material, showing that graphene is the strongest material ever encountered.

Reports about the worthy contributions of science to national economies pop up regularly all around the world – from the UK to the US and even the developing world. In Australia, the Office of the ...

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Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far, ahead is all her seamen know. —Arthur Hugh Clough Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough’s seamen.