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The internet doesn’t turn people into assholes so much as it acts as a  massive megaphone for existing ones , according to work by researchers at Aarhus University. Researchers used representative surveys and behavioral studies from the U.S. and Denmark to establish the reason why people broadly perceive the online environment as more hostile than offline interaction.  

Svante Pääbo  “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”  

Carolyn R. Bertozzi ,  Morten Meldal  and  K. Barry Sharpless  “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”  

Alain Aspect ,  John F. Clauser  and  Anton Zeilinger  “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”  

The science of science (SciSci) is based on a transdisciplinary approach that uses large data sets to study the mechanisms underlying the doing of science—from the choice of a research problem to career trajectories and progress within a field. This Review explains  that the underlying rationale is that with a deeper understanding of the precursors of impactful science, it will be possible to develop systems and policies that improve each scientist's ability to succeed and enhance the prospects of science as a whole.  

Here, we outline 16 tools  for science  that are causing us to rethink the boundaries  of scientific  research.