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When Universities Shortchange Grad Students, Bachelors Students Suffer Too

When Universities Shortchange Grad Students, Bachelors Students Suffer Too

A new report highlights gross inequities in health coverage for grad students - and a lack of access to mental-health resources more generally.

Can Auditing Scientific Research Help Fix Its Reproducibility Crisis?

Can Auditing Scientific Research Help Fix Its Reproducibility Crisis?

New research predicts that audits would reduce the number of false positive results from 30.2 per 100 papers to 12.3 per 100.

How Wikipedia Is Cultivating an Army of Fact Checkers to Battle Fake News

How Wikipedia Is Cultivating an Army of Fact Checkers to Battle Fake News

The online encyclopedia has been fact checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses.

How Immigrants Make American Science Great

How Immigrants Make American Science Great

Who is responsible for producing US science? To a large degree, the answer is: immigrants.

Why I don't care about Open Access to research and why you should

Why I don't care about Open Access to research and why you should

Should paywalls stand between the taxpaying public and publicly funded research? Congress recently decided that the answer should be "no."

The mostly unread world of academic papers

The mostly unread world of academic papers

According to one study, which was presumably read by more than three people, half of all academic papers are read by no more than three people.