Toolbox

A surge in the development of artificial-intelligence technology is driving a new wave of open-source tools for analysing animal behaviour and posture.

How workflow tools can make your computational methods portable, maintainable, reproducible and shareable.

Researchers often find themselves coding algorithms in one programming language, only to have to rewrite them in a faster one. An up-and-coming language could be the answer.

Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.

Scientists are using uncrewed aircraft to map the topography of Guam’s coral reefs.

Manufacturers are ditching equation editors in word-processing software in favour of the LaTeX typesetting language. Here’s how to get started.

Users of the open-source software have posted more than 5 million comments on scholarly sites.

Researchers share their tips for working in environments with unreliable infrastructure.

Forensic anthropologist Ann Ross describes the techniques she uses to determine the age of human skeletons.

Hard-drive failures are inevitable, but data loss doesn’t have to be.

Faced with mountains of image and audio data, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to answer pressing ecological questions.

An alternative to chemical oligonucleotide synthesis inches closer to reality.

Scientific publishing is increasingly adopting the technology underlying cryptocurrencies.

As the cost of 3D printers tumbles, researchers have begun using them to make everything from bespoke equipment for experiments to realistic models of human organs.

Computer-aided systems are helping researchers to create genetic circuits to order.

NeuroData allows researchers to explore terabytes of brain images in multiple formats.

An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool.

Graphics processing units aren’t just of interest to gamers and cryptocurrency miners. Increasingly, they’re being used to turbocharge academic research, too.

Marine biologists are using artificial intelligence to help them identify objects in millions of images.

As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.