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How Latin American researchers suffer in science

Source: Nature As female researchers from Latin American countries (one of us now works in the United States, the other in Argentina), we’re used to career obstacles. These range from limited funding...

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Open-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south

Source: Nature Open-access papers have drastically fewer lead authors from low-income regions than do paywalled articles, an analysis of tens of thousands of articles shows. The findings suggest that...

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Massive open index of scholarly papers launches

Source: Nature   An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index,...

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New dangers? Computers uncover 100,000 novel viruses in old genetic data

Source: Science Magazine It took just one virus to cripple the world’s economy and kill millions of people; yet virologists estimate that trillions of still-unknown viruses exist, many of which might...

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Argentina: país modelo para descolonizar la paleontología

Fuente: SciDev   Para enfrentar el colonialismo que impera en la paleontología de América Latina, es necesario fortalecer regulaciones y comunidades científicas locales, pero también propiciar que la...

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Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity

Source: Nature   Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also...

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Omicron leads to fresh wave of scientific meeting cancellations

Source: Science Magazine In a near rerun of early 2020, when dozens of meetings were canceled on short notice because of the pandemic, a handful of scientific societies are once again canceling their...

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Zero-point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Latin America

By Santiago Castro-Gómez · Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the...

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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

By Michael Strevens Liveright, 2020   During the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, a small handful of radical thinkers, among them Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, hit upon a way of...

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José Gregorio Paredes (1778-1839) : científico, político y creador del Escudo Nacional

  Alberto Varillas Montenegro Lima : Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú : Instituto Riva-Agüero : Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019   Primera parte: José Gregorio Paredes, hombre de...

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Antes de la ciencia : filosofía natural en Popayán (1767-1808)

  William Jiménez Escobar Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2020 Colección: Cuadernos Coloniales Páginas: 203 A partir de un recorrido por colecciones bibliográficas de una...

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Brazil’s scientists face 90% budget cut

Source: Nature   A proposal to shrink Brazil’s federal science budget by more than 90% has now been approved by our president. The immediate future of all ongoing projects, including thousands of...

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Centers, Peripheries and Subordination. A View on Latin American Science

Science and Society in Latin America. Peripheral Modernities, by P. Kreimer, New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 270 p., $48.95 (pbk)/$160 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-03209326-0     There has been a renewed...

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Fatal lab explosion in China highlights wider safety fears

Source: Nature   The deaths of two people following a laboratory explosion at a Chinese university in October have raised alarm among researchers. The full circumstances that led to the deaths at the...

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Luis Caldera Ortiz y los comienzos de la historia de la ciencia en Puerto Rico

por Rodrigo Fernós   Luis Caldera Ortiz Historia de los terremotos en Puerto Rico Lares, PR: Editorial Akelarre, 2020 En su Historia de los terremotos en Puerto Rico (2020), Luis Caldera Ortiz nos...

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E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92

Source: New York Times   Edward O. Wilson, a biologist and author who conducted pioneering work on biodiversity, insects and human nature — and won two Pulitzer Prizes along the way — died on Sunday...

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Biologist E.O. Wilson, who influenced how people see evolution and nature, dies at 92

Source:NPR ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The prominent biologist E.O. Wilson died yesterday. As NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, he shaped modern thinking on evolution and the environment. GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE:...

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OBITUARY E.O. Wilson, naturalist dubbed a modern-day Darwin, dies at 92

Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - E.O. Wilson, an American naturalist dubbed the modern day Darwin whose interest in ants led him to conclusions about human nature being directed by...

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AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve

Source: Nature Researchers have built an artificial intelligence (AI) that can generate new mathematical formulae — including some as-yet unsolved problems that continue to challenge mathematicians....

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DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots

Source: Nature   For the first time, machine learning has spotted mathematical connections that humans had missed. Researchers at artificial-intelligence powerhouse DeepMind, based in London, teamed...

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El tesoro de una científica rebelde

Fuente: Centro de Periodismo InvestigativoAna Roqué de Duprey, luchadora por el derecho al voto de las mujeres que sabían leer y escribir, se encontraba enferma en cama en su casa de Río Piedras. La...

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Las noticias más leídas en 2019 en la región

Fuente: SciDev   Las repercusiones de los recortes presupuestales en ciencia y tecnología, el surgimiento de nuevas enfermedades transmitidas por vectores y el avance de otras ya conocidas —tanto en...

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Nature’s 10: Ten people who mattered in science in 2019.

Source: Nature 1) RICARDO GALVÃO: Science defenderRicardo Galvão nearly passed out when he heard the news and realized he was being targeted by his own president. On 19 July, Brazil’s leader, Jair...

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Chinese Technology’s Growing Influence in Latin America

Source: Pan DailyChinese technology companies have grown in scale and confidence and are increasingly looking to influence internet revolutions in other regions across the world. Much has been said...

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Far from Becoming the Jaguar of Latin America: The Ecuadorian Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Turn

by  María Belén Albornoz (2020)Assessing the Left Turn in EcuadorSPRINER, 2020AbstractThis chapter explains the paradigmatic Ecuadorian STI policy change throughout the analysis of the most salient...

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