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Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with what’s been happening in the world of open science!

You’ve heard of the Protein Data Bank, but have you heard of Crystalium? This new open-source database, created by Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with the Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can help researchers design new materials for technologies in which surfaces and interfaces play an important role.

With the use of Augmented Reality, a popular video game component (Pokemon Go, anyone?), researchers at the University of California Davis, have created the open source Augmented Reality Sandbox project with which students will be able to create their own worlds —  complete with mountains, lakes, rivers and valleys  – by moving sand around with their hands. Then they can watch what happens when they change the landscape or infuse the world with water, snow or lava  — instantaneously, giving students a powerful new tool to study environmental science.

ASAPbio is moving forward with their proposal for a centralized preprint service for the life sciences and is seeking your feedback. Check out their plans and don’t forget to comment and have your voice heard before they present it to funders this fall!

As part of OpenCon (Washington, D.C. November 12-14^th) OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen and Digital-science, along with their portfolio companies Figshare and Overleaf, have teamed up to organize an OpenCon ‘satellite’ event to be held in Berlin on the 24-26th November. Don’t forget to register here!