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Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic

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Digital Intervention for Collaborative and Human-Centered Activities in Design-Based Learning Scenarios

OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

A landmark environmental law looks ahead

Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science

First-person experience cannot rescue causal structure theories from the unfolding argument

Roadmap on Machine learning in electronic structure

Science's Response to CoVID-19

Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science

Archiving the Leftovers of Science: Metadata and Histories of Scientific Institutions

Detection of Spatiotemporal Clusters of COVID-19-Associated Symptoms and Prevention Using a Participatory Surveillance App: Protocol for the @choum Study

Wastewater monitoring outperforms case numbers as a tool to track COVID-19 incidence dynamics when test positivity rates are high

Lung Ultrasonography for Risk Stratification in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Prospective Observational Cohort Study

Highlights of the Science and Life of Peter Varga (1946-2018)

Prepare Scientists to Engage in Science‐Policy

Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Ethics in Research

Formal Approaches to Querying Big Data in Shared-Nothing Systems

"Citizen Science"? Rethinking Science and Public Participation

The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness