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 […]
A natural scientist reflects on a conference that focused on bringing natural and social scientists into a a shared, and continuing, conversation.
[We are pleased to welcome Jawad Syed, who collaborated with Agoes Rahyuda and Ebrahim Soltani on their article “The Role of Relapse […]
A young researcher offers her take on the peer review after attending a Sense About Science session on the subject.
On May 29, the National Science Foundation issued an Important Notice to Presidents of Universities and Colleges and Heads of Other National […]
A blow-by-blow account of last weeks U.S. House of Representatives’ tussling over social sciecne funding differed markedly from dainty action in the Senate this week.
A single nudge may be enough to cause a single action, but is a sing;e type of nudge sufficient to base a new policy on? Shouldn’t we know that before instituting that new policy?
Online and blended (both online and in classroom) courses are becoming more and more popular as time goes on. According to the […]
Academic English is its own language (for better or for worse), and literacy in it requires more than just being a dab hand with Google Translate.