Previously I looked at some of the properties of the mysterious dimer of nitric oxide 1 – not the known weak dimer but a higher energy form with a “triple” N≡N bond.
A recent paper in the Journal of Open Source Software describes the implementation details of Underworld3 and a brief motivation for the rewritten codebase (Moresi et al, 2025). Underworld3 combines the power of the symbolic algebra package, sympy (Meurer et al, 2017), with the equation templating system in the parallel finite-element framework of PETSc, through petsc4py (Knepley et al, 2013, Dalcin et al, 2011). Underworld3 has the same
References are an important element of scholarly metadata, and that is also true for science blog posts. Currently 5.06% of all Rogue Scholar posts include at least one reference, which are then registered with Crossref metadata. Citations are the counterpart of references. When other scholarly works are cited in the references of a scholarly work, this citation information can be communicated to the cited work.
Coupling in Underworld 2 Underworld 2's UWGeodynamic module enables the coupling of tectonics and surface processes models, most notably, with Underworld 2 handling the tectonics and Badlands (Salles, Ding, & Brocard, 2018) handling the surface processes.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools like ChatGPT are increasingly finding their way into research and scholarly publishing. This trend brings a pressing challenge: how do academics clearly disclose the use of AI in their research workflows? Right now, many disclosures are either too vague (e.g. "We used ChatGPT to improve clarity") or missing entirely.
Die Entwicklung und der Erfolg von Open Access beruhen maßgeblich auf digitalen Informationsinfrastrukturen, die weltweit von Forschenden, Bibliotheken und anderen Einrichtungen genutzt werden. Diese Infrastrukturen stehen zunehmend unter Druck, da ihre Finanzierung oftmals projektbasiert erfolgt und der Übergang zu einer nachhaltigen, institutionellen oder konsortialen Finanzierung bisher nur in Teilen gelingt.
Background New Zealand public sector agencies must prepare a ‘long-term insights briefing’ every three years. This is an opportunity to look beyond short-term political cycles and use foresight to see what really matters to New Zealand over the longer course.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.
Software that is developed for research or by researchers can be difficult to maintain given the incentive and funding structures in academia.
One often hears it said that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. For example, if you excavate some fossil sauropods and they don’t have preserved feathers, that not evidence that sauropods didn’t have feathers. Oh yes it is. This is an example of a mantra that’s short, catchy, and wrong.
Appalachian History Series On December 30, 1970, a powerful coal dust explosion ripped through the Finley Coal Company’s interconnected Nos. 15 and 16 mines on Hurricane Creek near Hyden in Leslie County. Thirty-eight miners were killed. One man, A. T. Collins, survived after the blast hurled him out of the portal. Another miner, Harrison Henson, was outside the mine when the explosion occurred.