Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
There are a lot of factors that play into deciding on who to hire as a head coach in the NFL. Looking at the data, race is one of them.
Looking at the entirety of what occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s clear that there was both legitimate protest and illegitimate political violence. When political violence replaces political discourse, and when political leaders refuse to play by the democratic rules of the game, democracies weaken, and may even die.
Two members of the Australian Research Council College of Experts explain why a political veto of several expert-vetted grants led them to resign from the advisory panel.
Across studies in research described here, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field.
Defying the Third Reich’s attempt to wipe Jewish culture off the map, ‘yizker bikher’ memorialize writers’ hometowns, commemorate murdered loved ones and pass on collective memory.
Associate professor Siouxsie Wiles and professor Shaun Hendy have become well known for their work explaining the science behind COVID-19 and guiding the public and government response. Is their home institution doing enough to protect them from bad actors?
In an open letter, 63 Australian Research Council laureate fellows complain vigorously to the minister and to the chief executive of the ARC about a recent instance of political interference in the funding of basic research.
James Piazza concludes that when election losers in democracies reject election results, becoming “sore losers,” tribalism grows and political violence becomes less taboo.