It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Academia isn’t strong on gender equality. Women are under-represented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organisations. This is true for science academies ...

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A decade or so ago, reading instruction underwent a public reassessment. Whole language approaches had emphasized immersion in texts and contextual, “cue"-based guessing strategies. The goals were ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

A new study put ChatGPT to the test by asking it to judge whether hundreds of scientific hypotheses were true or false—and the results were far from reassuring. While the AI got it right about 80% of ...

Earthquakes, volcanic eruption, eclipses, meteor showers, and many other natural phenomena have always been part of life on Earth. In ancient cultures that predated science, such events were often ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) – Clark State is offering free GED prep courses for adults who have not yet earned a high school diploma. Through its Aspire High School Equivalency Program, Clark State is ...

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It seems like scammers are always trying to find new ways to steal your money. A recent one that local leaders say are on the rise are online General Educational Development (GED) scams. "We had ...

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...