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2019 was a bumper year for the publications of the Materials Research Society, and we are delighted to announce that all three journals included in the Journal Citation Reports significantly increased their Impact Factors, usage and website visits.…
Experimental Results is a truly innovative project for Cambridge University Press – it is the first of our journals to have an open peer review process, as well as being designed to address the positive bias and replication issues often seen with traditional journals, by providing a forum for all sound experimental findings across Science, Technology & Medicine.…
In this post Lawrie Balfour expands on her 2003 American Political Science Review article ‘Unreconstructed Democracy: W.E.B. DuBois and the Case for Reparations‘.…
As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in violation of international law.…
Associate Professor He (Helen) North Carolina State University, answers our questions about her work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
Archaeologists have used maps for quite a long while, and with good reason. People, their communities, and their things are situated in places.…
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) recently referred to asymptomatic transmissions of COVID-19 as “very rare”. This raised a furious scientific debate, which led WHO to walk back its comments and clarify that people without symptoms can and do readily spread the virus.…
The manufacturing process for toothpaste involves mixing together several fluid and solid components to create the non-Newtonian polymer used to clean your teeth.…
Worldwide suicide is most common in young people, and in many places rates of self-harm and suicide are rising, especially in girls. With this in mind, we wanted to explore the characteristics of suicide in young people, including gender differences and contacts with services that could play a part in prevention.
In this blog for Data-Centric Engineering, Paul Clarke (Chief Technology Officer at Ocado) documents Ocado’s journey with building synthetic models of its business, its platforms and its underlying technologies, including the use of simulations, emulations, visualisations and digital twins.…
In this post Dean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo expand upon their APSR article ‘Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing‘ which was recently published online.…