Exploring radiation measurement after Fukushima: When media ecology meets citizen science

When Science Meets Religion

Exploring the Global Adoption of Citizen Science

In recent years there has been a growing interest toward the application of Web-based citizen science platforms. Such platforms use crowdsourcing techniques to support scientific advancements, and in several cases, have lead to new scientific discoveries which were not originally considered. Our work explores the highly successful Web-based citizen science platform, Zooniverse, a crowdsourcing ...

Animal clocks: when science meets nature.

Daily rhythms of physiology and behaviour are governed by an endogenous timekeeping mechanism (a circadian 'clock'), with the alternation of environmental light and darkness synchronizing (entraining) these rhythms to the natural day-night cycle. Our knowledge of the circadian system of animals at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organismal levels is remarkable, and we are beginning to under...

BEZ235: When Promising Science Meets Clinical Reality

In the July 2016 issue of The Oncologist, Carlo et al. report the results of a phase I clinical trial [1] of BEZ235 in patients with advancedrenal cell carcinoma(RCC).BEZ235 isadualpan-class PI3K and mTOR inhibitor currently undergoing phase I/II clinical trials as a single agent or in combination in solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. The authors are to be congratulated for reportingthe...

Radiation protection: where are we after Fukushima?