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Open source and science take many of the same approaches to investigation and discovery, making them natural allies. Learn more about the intersection of open source and science in these articles.

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How open source is helping solve the plastic pollution problem

OpenLitterMap empowers people to map and share data on litter problems in their communities.
Chris Hermansen (Correspondent) Seán Lynch 24 Jan 2021 2 comments
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Explore the night sky with this open source astronomy app

Stargaze from your Linux desktop or Android device with KStars.
Don Watkins (Correspondent) 02 Jan 2021
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A web-native approach to open source scientific publishing

The open access eLife journal introduces Executable Research Articles, enabling authors to publish more transparent, interactive, and reproducible research.
Nokome Bentley Giuliano Maciocci 06 Nov 2020 1 comment
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Open source tools provide an economic advantage for science

Review finds significant cost savings when using free and open source scientific hardware over proprietary equivalents.
Joshua Pearce 02 Oct 2020
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How open source will affect the future of our energy use

Many sustainability efforts can use open source philosophies and tools to grow and enact real change on a global scale.
Jaouhari Youssef 10 Jul 2020
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4 open source alternatives to MATLAB

If you're looking for scientific computing software, but can't afford the leading proprietary solution, check out these open source options.
Jason Baker (Red Hat) Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 06 Jan 2020 42 comments
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New research article type embeds live code and data

The non-profit scientific research publication platform eLife recently announced the Reproducible Document Stack (RDS).
Giuliano Maciocci Emmy Tsang 02 Aug 2019
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Teaching scientists how to share code

This course teaches them how to set up a GitHub project, index their project in Zenodo, and integrate Git into an RStudio workflow.
Jon Tennant 25 Feb 2019

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