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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.

New research agreement opens up for universities and companies

Traditional contracts hamstring research collaborators by increasing costs and delaying...

Joshua Pearce 27 Jul 2018 39 votes 4 comments

Building hearing aids with a Linux-based open hardware board

Open source platform for improving hearing aids uses a BeagleBone Black for its next iteration.

Daniel James Christopher Obbard 11 Jul 2018 65 votes 1 comment

Getting started with Jupyter Notebooks

Create interactive, shareable notebooks with live code, equations, visualizations, and text using...

Don Watkins 28 Mar 2018 72 votes 1 comment

3 open source tools for scientific publishing

Learn about these 3 open source tools for scientific publishing.

Paul Shannon 07 Mar 2018 71 votes 3 comments

Getting started with Python for data science

You don't need expensive tools to tap the power of data science. Get started with these open source...

Payal Singh 05 Mar 2018 123 votes 2 comments

2 scientific calculators for the Linux desktop

Every Linux desktop environment comes with at least a simple desktop calculator, but most of those...

Ricardo Berlasso 15 Jan 2018 100 votes 6 comments

How open science evolved in 2017

In 2017, Opensource.com contributors shared ways open source software and science teamed up. Check...

Ben Cotton 25 Dec 2017 224 votes

Who gets the credit?

After you've done the hard work of writing great software, it shouldn't take weeks or months to...

Daniel S. Katz 21 Dec 2017 217 votes 1 comment

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