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Do the Deaths of Top Scientists Make Way for New Growth? (Undark magazine)
A study suggests that after prominent scientists die, their fields see an influx of work from lesser-known researchers.
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How Six Scientists Laid Foundations for Modern Climate Science (Science magazine book review)
How did climatology become climate science — more broadly, how did the idea of Earth as an interconnected natural system emerge? A historian traces the change in a new book.
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Why Scientists Need to Be Better at Data Visualization (Knowable Magazine)
The scientific literature is riddled with bad charts and graphs, leading to misunderstanding and worse. Avoiding design missteps can improve understanding of research.
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‘Mesoscope’ Puts Ever-Larger Biological Samples Under the Spotlight (Nature)
Microscopy has been a trade-off until now: the bigger the sample, the lower the resolution. But picking out cellular detail in mouse brains and more is becoming increasingly possible.
