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Millions have been spent to catch plagiarism and AI with tools from education company Turnitin. Is the tech worth it?
As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?
The nature writer Robert Macfarlane probes some profound moral and environmental questions in “Is a River Alive?" ...
New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.
Critics of Haidt’s take suggest that the evidence is mixed regarding whether increasing levels of teen mental health problems ...
Zweig’s book, along with Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson’s recent “The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism,’’ are impassioned accounts contending that in recent years, ...
A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.
Exposome researchers say the work could be as consequential for human health as the decade-plus-long effort to read and map the human genome, or even more so, if it can realize its promise.Some ...
The story centers on Francisco Lopera, a charismatic and thoughtful Colombian neurologist who, himself a paisa, earns the trust of hundreds of carriers of the mutation and their loved ones. After ...