The Metaphorical Power of NASA's First All-women Spacewalk
The story of the first female spacewalk doubles as a metaphor for what it's like to be a woman full of ambition in 2019.
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Apple, IBM, and Google Don't Care Anymore If You Went to College
Skills matter. How you learned them may not.
Imposter Syndrome Isn't the Problem - Toxic Workplaces Are
As young scientists, we are fooled into working harder and longer to live up to sky-high expectations and encouraged to feel inadequate.
The Female Scientist Who Identified the Greenhouse-Gas Effect Never Got the Credit
R and Python Are Joining Forces, in the Crossover Event of the Year
For programmers, this is a blockbuster announcement in the world of data science.
A Nobel Prize Winner Is Freeing Women Scientists from Household Chores
Science is a brutally competitive field. Long days in the lab are a given. Every hour of available time is an advantage, especially in the crucial early years of a postdoctoral career.
Google's True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance
Google's True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance
The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.
Our Fight Against Climate Change Is Failing. One Technology Can Change That.
Carbon capture has a bad reputation. But after a year of reporting, I’ve come to a conclusion: It's both vital and viable.
Those 3% of Scientific Papers that Deny Climate Change
A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.
Alibaba Is Plowing $15 Billion into R&D with 7 New Research Labs
Alibaba wants to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The advisory board includes Harvard's geneticist George Church and others.
Soon, Nobody Will Read Academic Journals Illegally — the Studies Worth Reading Will Be Free
Soon, Nobody Will Read Academic Journals Illegally — the Studies Worth Reading Will Be Free
It’s a dirty open secret in academia. Scholars work very hard to prove their work is worth taxpayers’ money, but then publish it in journals that are prohibitively expensive—not just for taxpayers but academics themselves.
India's Scientists Are Marching Against Pseudoscience, Religious Intolerance, and Paltry Funding
India's Scientists Are Marching Against Pseudoscience, Religious Intolerance, and Paltry Funding
Budgetary cuts in funding, pseudoscience and growing religious bigotry have left the scientific community worried.
China Is Funding Baidu to Take on the US in Deep-Learning Research
Beijing is ready for the US to stop taking all the credit on AI advancements.
Most Unicorn Founders in the World Are Graduates of Stanford, Harvard…and the IITs
Most Unicorn Founders in the World Are Graduates of Stanford, Harvard…and the IITs
IITs are even better than MIT at churning out founders of unicorns.
The Gender Bias in Peer Reviewing Reveals the Sexism in Academia
Even women researchers are more likely to choose men to review their academic papers.
A Global Alliance Is Investing $500 Million to Stop Deadly Outbreaks We Are Utterly Unprepared For
A Global Alliance Is Investing $500 Million to Stop Deadly Outbreaks We Are Utterly Unprepared For
Global partnership launched in Davos to prevent epidemics with new vaccines.
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule
Many of the comments in the Apollo Guidance Computer code go beyond boring explanations of the software itself. They’re full of light-hearted jokes and messages, and very 1960s references.
A Cambridge professor on how to stop being so easily manipulated by misleading statistics
A Cambridge professor on how to stop being so easily manipulated by misleading statistics
On the many ways to say the same thing.
Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false
“Science isn’t about truth and falsity, it’s about reducing uncertainty.”
Many scientific studies you read about are hinged on the wrong metric
The problem with p-values.
Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers-for free
"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."
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