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Editorial Snapshot: Advancing open research policy: Key insights from an MIT Press workshop

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Published: 2025/01/22

- G.A., Senior Editor

On September 20, 2024, the MIT Press, with funding from the National Science Foundation, hosted a workshop in Washington, DC, focused on building an evidence base to inform the future of open science and research policy. With the January 2026 implementation date for new U.S. public access requirements fast approaching, the workshop gathered a diverse group of experts to explore how evolving open research policies can best support scientific progress. The discussions centered around a range of critical questions that could shape the open science agenda moving forward.

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Science News: Pando: The world's largest and possibly oldest living organism

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Published: 2025/01/22

– G.A., Senior Editor

A grove of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah, collectively known as Pando, is not just the largest single organism on Earth, but it may also be the oldest. This massive clone of trembling aspens, all genetically identical and descended from a single seedling, covers an area of 106 acres and weighs nearly 13 million pounds. While Pando’s sheer size has made it a subject of fascination, recent research has raised the intriguing possibility that it has been alive for tens of thousands of years.

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Editorial Snapshot: The importance of copyright compliance in academic publishing

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Published: 2024/12/18

- G.A., Senior Editor

Recently, Elsevier’s Ain Shams Engineering Journal retracted two papers after discovering that the authors used unlicensed software in their research. The papers, which explored dam failures, relied on FLOW-3D, a computational fluid dynamics application developed by Flow Science. The software’s creators filed a complaint after an editorial investigation revealed that the authors did not obtain a proper license for its use. The journal’s retraction notice emphasized that one of the core submission conditions is that research should not violate intellectual property rights, including the proper licensing of any software used.

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Science News: Alarming global decline in freshwater levels

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Published: 2024/12/18

– G.A., Senior Editor

A recent study, conducted by an international team of scientists using satellite data from NASA and the German Aerospace Center, has uncovered a concerning decline in Earth’s total freshwater levels. Beginning in May 2014, global freshwater—encompassing both surface water in lakes and rivers, as well as underground aquifers—dropped by an estimated 290 cubic miles (1,200 cubic km), a volume more than two and a half times the size of Lake Erie. The study utilized data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, which measured shifts in water mass globally, providing the most detailed insight into this disturbing trend.

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