The National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation are the highest awards the US gives to leaders in the fields of science and technology. This month, US President Barack Obama announced a new group of recipients, and we’re delighted to congratulate F1000 International Advisory Board Member Bruce Alberts and Section Head…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
F1000 Section Head David Tilman has been announced as the recipient of the 2014 Balzan Prize. Aiming to “promote culture, the sciences and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace and fraternity among peoples throughout the world” this prestigious award was created from the inheritance Lina Balzan to honor the memory of…
Kathleen Wets, Publisher for F1000, today visited F1000 Faculty Member Hugo Spiers at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL, London, and video-recorded him talking about his research into spatial cognition. Spiers used to work in Nobel Prize winner John O’Keefe’s lab, and his research on spatial memory, cognition and how we navigate through space follows…
The October issue of the open-access review journal F1000Prime Reports is now out, and for this month’s feature, we thought we’d put cardiac metabolism in the spotlight.
We are delighted to congratulate Edvard Moser, F1000Prime Faculty Member in the Neuroscience Faculty, on receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professor Moser is a founding director of The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory (KI/CBM) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and has…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
As it’s International Coffee Day today, it seems appropriate to highlight the plethora of research papers highlighted on F1000Prime that examine the benefits (or not) of coffee. And there are many, as a simple search of the F1000Prime site reveals. Indeed, not only may coffee reduce the risk of urolithiasis, it could also provide some…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
In anticipation of the Nobel prizes next month, last week the Annals of Improbable Research awarded the 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobels aim to honour “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” This year’s winner are no exception, with studies such as the solemnly named “Nasal Packing With Strips…
