Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee

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Can New Models of Publishing Better Salvage the Benefits of Peer Review?

Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?

Academic research seeks to discover new things and make testable predictions about our world and beyond. In this process, it sets standards for what constitutes a valid discovery. Credit: gastev/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Are the Preconditions for Good Research in the Anthropocene Epoch?

A winter storm over the northeastern portion of the US in February 2015. Credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

If Science Must Be a Self-Correcting Search for Truth, So Should Its Communication

A paper-made centrifuge, called a paperfuge, could replace the more conventional and sophisticated centrifuge (shown) at remote points of healthcare. Credit: uclmaps/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Meet Paperfuge, the Biomedical Centrifuge Inspired By a Toy

Two researchers working with the plague in Philippines, 1912. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Study of Human History Through the Lives of Disease-Causing Bacteria

Ovarian clear cell carcinoma. Cells use a form of protein-mediated optimisation that lets them hack their environs quickly and colonise. cnicholsonpath/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Optimisation in the Wild: How Cells Lead Better Lives