How do the breakthroughs in science happen?

I am interested whether this is a sudden phenomenon that is a result of sudden and unexpected illumination or rather it is a collective addition of small facts that like a balloon burst and reach...

09 October 2013 9,399 31 View

Are "physical constants" really constant?

I am interested in how many people believe that physical constants are not changing with time and how many have a hidden suspicion (even when they officially not revealed it) that they do. The...

04 May 2013 6,607 6 View

How important is the Rfree concept for crystallographers?

I am interested in how many people actually believe that it is an important concept and how many people actually have any experience with its utility? For instance how many times use of Rfree...

04 May 2013 8,081 18 View

What is known about the specific sites of phosphatidylcholine binding in peripheral proteins?

What are the structural details of such sites and what is their influence on binding to the membranes compared to phosphatidylinositol or serine?

31 December 2012 1,663 1 View

Is science becoming a "business" of doing science and does this kill its idealistic foundation?

My friends provided some anecdotal evidence of spreading science fraud when work of several postdocs was impossible to be reproduced. My suspicions were partially vindicated when in recent issue...

10 November 2012 10,018 8 View

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02 March 2021 932 1 View

APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

Where can I find life cycle inventory or assessment of non woven materials?

Dear network, I am looking for the LCA or LCI or at least the energy balances of the non woven fabrics process for my master project, in specific for natural fibers, yet I have found...

02 March 2021 9,662 1 View

How Download/Extract citations of 1 given year ALL my publications in Google Scholar?

If you google this you find a lot of smart guys explaining you how to download 1 year of citations of 1 single paper of yours (or anyone else). I mean 1 year of ALL my papers. or ... ALL years or...

01 March 2021 1,121 9 View

How can I edit suggested publications?

Hi there! I regularly receive suggestion about papers and authors that are totally out of my area. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Thank you!

01 March 2021 9,574 4 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

Any research paper call for publication related to management or finance or economics?

It should be standard journal (Indexed)

01 March 2021 8,379 1 View

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Could anyone tell me what is the range of submillimeter wave?

There is confusion regarding the submillimeter-wave range. Many papers specify its range from 300GHz but some also consider its range from 100GHz. If I design an antenna on 122ghz what would I...

01 March 2021 516 7 View

Any research papers for extraction of nutrient deprivation on macroalgae? Analysed by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. Possibly from macroalgae genus Rhizoclonium?

I am doing my thesis on the nutrient deprivation on the macroalgae Rhizoclonium sp. I will be analysing the levels over a period of roughly 5 days by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. I will be using seawater as...

28 February 2021 6,477 1 View