Science

I got wonderful news today. Our paper “Specialization and herding behavior of trading firms in a financial market” (pdf) has been selected by the Editorial Board of New Journal of Physics … ...

Mark Twain (1924) probably had politicians in mind when he reiterated Disraeli’s famous remark ("There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"). Scientists, we hope, would never use … ...

One of the areas of my research is stochastic differential equations (SDE). I posted about it several times before. One of the things students and collaborators keep asking me about SDEs is the weird … ...

The Eigenfactor Project and Moritz Stefaner join efforts to visualize the citation network between different journals belonging to different research fields. It is amazing and a wonderful way to … ...

Although the public transportation system in Madrid is very good, I don’t usually take the bus or the train to move around. But sometimes my car decides I should take public transportation (bus … ...

I found an interesting presentation by Sami Mitra, associate editor of Physical Review Letters, about the editorial office and the editorial process at PRL. Among some interesting figures about the … ...

In the old days, research quality was measured by the number of papers you published. Publishing was a hard process and only few scientists were able to publish several papers per year. However, with … ...

Good news to fans of the “language of Nature”, mathematics. Wall Street Journal is running an article on what are the best jobs in 2008. The ranking is done “evaluating 200 … ...

In 1828, Robert Brown published the manuscript entitled “A brief account of microscopical observations made in the months of June, July and August 1827, on the particles contained in the pollen … ...

Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the … ...