Global warming to exceed Paris target despite climate pledges – but increase is slowing
The United Nations says current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on course to blow past the limit for global warming countries…
Read MoreThe United Nations says current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on course to blow past the limit for global warming countries…
Read MoreMatthew T. Osborne, Samuel S. Malloy, Erik C. Nisbet, Robert M. Bond & Joseph H. Tien Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 9832 (2022) Cite this article Metricsdetails Abstract Understanding how different…
By JULIAN MATTHEWS – Nieman Lab How fake news gets into our minds, and what you can do to resist it Although the term itself is…
As of April 11, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 555 cases of the disease since the beginning of the year, up…
The White House’s fiscal 2020 budget proposal recommends lowering NSF’s budget to $7.1 billion, from its current level of $8.1 billion. The 12 percent decline would exceed…
A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper. The manuscript is an absurd mess of factual errors, plagiarism and movie…
The message might not come through if you put all your communication eggs in one theoretical basket. buydeephoto/Shutterstock.com John Cook, George Mason University and Sander…
Advocating for facts and evidence at the March for Science in California earlier this year. Matthew Roth/flickr, CC BY-NC Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan…
by Lisa Song ProPublica, May 24, 2017, 1:28 p.m. When the city of Toledo temporarily lost access to clean drinking water several years ago after…
by Jessica Huseman ProPublica, May 12, 2017, 7 p.m. The USDA’s research section studies everything from climate change to nutrition. Under the 2008 Farm Bill,…
Scientists protest against proposed cuts against science in the UK in 2010. Shane/Flickr, CC BY-SA Joseph Roche, Trinity College Dublin Scientists around the world are facing…
Simon Chapman, University of Sydney In the early 16th century Copernicus published his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)….
Making a point at a Washington, D.C. protest in January. stephenmelkisethian/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Elizabeth Suhay, American University One of the most unexpected political developments in…
CC BY-SA 3.0 NY Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed,…
The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics since the last U.S. election cycle. But fake news is not at all new…
Ivan Oransky, New York University and Adam Marcus, Johns Hopkins University Have you heard that scientists are planning a march on Washington? The move is…
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham There are more academic publishers out there than ever before. In 2014 there was an estimated 28,100 active scientific journals,…
Tolullah Oni, University of Cape Town Science needs more “academic hybrids”: scientists who buck the stereotype of working in silos. This way of thinking must…
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