In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...
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The last secret of the Dead Sea scrolls has been cracked. The 930 texts rocked the religious community when they were found ...
And they found that, while researchers produce far more papers after starting to use AI and the quality of the language used went up, the publication rate of these papers has dropped. The researchers ...
Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.
A clay tablet with proto-cuneiform writing. Image credits: Jim Kuhn/Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas ...
If ever there were a time to resurrect science journalism, it is now. Between artificial intelligence, the soaring misuse of toxic chemicals, the distractions of noise and light pollution, the growth ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship center for space science is under attack from within, and some of the biggest ...
Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false ...
I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...
Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...
What can cognitive science tell us about how to unlock the benefits of writing? The evidence suggests three basic principles. First, we need to ensure that writing activities are embedded in the ...