Crowdfunding science: The SciFund Challenge
In late 2011, two ecologists from the US National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in California embarked on an exciting experiment: to see if the crowdfunding model [1] successfully used...
View ArticleNature publishes first of the ‘weaponised’ flu papers
And it’s Open Access! Late last year it was revealed that 2 papers submitted to the journals Science and Nature had been sent to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), an...
View ArticleSciFund Challenge Day 13!
So with 18 days still left to go, the 75 projects which make up round 2 of the SciFund Challenge have raised over 58,000 US dollars for scientific research using the RocketHub crowd funding platform....
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SciFund Challenge – Target achieved!
Glowing bacteria attract over $3000 for science in 15 days! For those who don’t know, this month I am taking part in the SciFund Challenge, raising money for my research using the RocketHub...
View ArticleSo just how do amphetamines work?
That’s the question Ethan Perlstein, an evolutionary pharmacologist and Lewis-Sigler Fellow at Princeton University, is trying to find out. And he needs our help! Ethan is trying to raise US$25,000 on...
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