How the United Nations' new 'open science framework' could speed up the pace of discovery

  • Written by: Cathy Foley, Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Science, at its heart, is a collaborative effort. The eureka moments are headline-grabbing and enormously important, but they don’t come out of the blue. They emerge from years or even decades of testing, rejecting and refining ideas, painstakingly building a body of knowledge. Progress would be extremely slow if we...

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