Top stories: Cat poop mania, spying slavery from space, and tough lobster bellies
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Deal reveals what scientists in Germany are paying for open access
Details of landmark contract with Wiley become public -
Podcast: spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders
On this week’s show: We go to the AAAS annual meeting to talk communication disorders, we use satellites to spy on modern slavery, and we read a book on the neuroscience of addiction -
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A new law was supposed to protect South Africans' privacy. It may block important research instead
Law may prevent researchers from reanalyzing data and samples in big databases -
From Science Careers: After a baby, 28% of new parents leave full-time STEM work
More than 40% of new moms and 20% of new dads in science change fields, go part time, or quit the workforce -
How secret, late-night experiments transformed two scientists into master cartoonists
Matteo Farinella and Jason McDermott explain how other scientists can unleash their inner artists -
Major medical journals don’t follow their own rules for reporting results from clinical trials
Systemic look across papers finds that letters pointing out problems are often rejected -
Top stories: The origins of Stonehenge, a #MeTooSTEM leader, and a new crater under Greenland’s ice
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The winner of this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest turned physics into art
Dance shows “unsociable” particles becoming “joyful” pairs -
You know kilo, mega, and giga. Is the metric system ready for ronna and quecca?
These are some of the proposed prefixes for incredibly big and small numbers -
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