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ResearchGate: A New Innovation for the Scientists and By the Scientists!

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 5, 2013

ResearchGate logoDid you ever think about discussing your scientific ideas with your friends? Have you ever though what science can do when it’s driven by collaboration? Here is the answer to your question, ResearchGate. Yes! ResearchGate is the ideal location where two people from two different areas of the world can research jointly. The rapid advancement in the technology field has opened gates of innovative thinking by offering you with the right instruments. ResearchGate facilitates technical association on an international scale.

ResearchGate is surely a focal point for your conducting your research, sharing your expertise with your contacts from all over the world. Read more of this post

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Petridish: Fund Scientific Research Projects

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 26, 2012
Petridish

Petridish

Petridish is a wonderful opportunity for those who want to fund the science projects that are passionate about.

On Petridish, you can fund science and explore the world with renowned researchers. They bring you the most interesting projects that they can find, and provides you the opportunity to be a part of them.

You can create an account to back one of the amazing featured projects or leave Petridish your email address. They will send you information when additional projects are launched. Read more of this post

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Late Nite Labs: Virtual Science Education for Everyone

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 17, 2011
Late Nite Labs

Late Nite Labs

With the growing number of students, and the dwindling resources available for these students and teacher alike, there is a need to tweak some parts of the current educational landscape. To date, eLearning platforms are becoming really popular among students and Late Nite Labs wants to ride on the coat- tails and renew learning.

Late Nite Labs attempts to make a solution for the exacerbating problem of supplementary education. So with this platform, it lets universities provide engaging courses even when resources are limited. And as of the moment, they are living up to their mission: Read more of this post

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ScienceDaily: online stop for everything science

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 18, 2011
ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily is a one-stop web portal for science lovers. No surprise then that it is also one of the most popular science news website on the Internet. The quality of its articles and news has earned millions of fans who are interested in science.

Researchers, students, science enthusiasts, healthcare professionals, educators and government agencies has made ScienceDaily their daily dose of everything science. With more than 3 million visitors per month, ScienceDaily is growing from strength to strength.

ScienceDaily also has in its kitty; books, videos, images, articles and, of course, news. It gets to you latest discoveries and inventions in science. It has an enormous data of research articles (65,000 articles), 15,000 images, 2,500 encyclopedia entries, 1,500 book reviews, and hundreds of educational videos. That is what I meant when I said that it is a one-stop web portal for science lovers.

The website is updated many times in a day, bringing you fresh information from all around the world. Links on ScienceDaily to other sources of information on science widens the reach of science enthusiasts and experts. ScienceDaily carefully chooses external links so you can be sure of their quality.

You can easily search for a topic or a branch of science by using their custom search.

ScienceDaily is widely-known for publishing important science news from the world’s top universities and research organizations. These new stories are selected from materials submitted to ScienceDaily on a daily basis, from press releases and their own research.

Since starting in 1995, ScienceDaily has become popular with schools, universities, research organizations, scientists, reference sources, thinkers and science enthusiasts. Because of high-quality content and the quality of its readers, the website has attracted the attention of advertisers. Media metrics firms ranks ScienceDaily among the top 500 to 1,000 websites on the Internet.

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Verbosus – Online LaTeX And Octave Editor

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 4, 2011

verbosus-logoVerbosus is a web based free application that come with LaTeX and Octave Editor. LaTeX is a document markup language which is widely used by researchers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, philosophers, linguists, economists, and other scholars those who are related to academia.

Octave is another high level language for numerical computation and it also provides extensive graphical capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Using Verbosus’s Octave editor you can easily perform calculations and visualization in a plot.

In spite of lots of online or desktop based latex editor verbosus is distinguishable for its splendid futures as well as security and enough concern with privacy for LaTeX and Octave project. For ensuring security for your project verbosus is using TLS (Transport Layer Security). Verbosus is currently supporting almost all browsers such Firefox 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6, Internet explorer, Safari, Chrome and Opera. Using Verbosus you can create .pdf files directly in the browser.

For the newbie Verbosus has fantastic and high-quality help section with extent explanation on how you complete your project successfully as well it helps you a lot to familiarize with LaTeX. Moreover, Verbosus is providing you backup facility and also you will have the opportunity to use custom templates. Finally you can add  additional bibliography styles.

Some additional features of Verbosus are:

  • HTTPS (increased security)
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Code completion
  • Backups
  • Upload files

For the Android users Verbosus has made an application namely VerbTeX which allows you to use verbosus.com from your Android device and good news is that this application is also free.

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