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During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media was an exceptionally powerful tool for scientists.

Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 21, 2025, the headlines have looked some...

Frozen grants. Labs on pause. Cancelled research projects.

Genetics just might be the single-fastest advancing field in the life sciences.

2024 was a year of incredible discovery. A new injectable miracle drug protects against HIV for six ...

This is the first article in a new series of groundbreaking trends in research. Stay tuned for updat...

Scientists are severely overburdened—too many responsibilities, too many opportunities, and too much...

When it comes to tenure evaluation, committee chairs often have an all-important metric: the list of...

When the FDA issued emergency authorization use for the first COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020, it ...

2023 and the start of 2024 in research were full of illuminating studies and earthquaking discoverie...

Science needs the law—and the law needs science.

The explosive, disruptive potential of the generative AI tool ChatGPT has already changed the world ...

In 2020, U.S. faculty openings plummeted 70% across the board amid anxiety about university finances...

It’s now been over three years since COVID-19 began to sweep across the world, altering lives, polit...

The COVID-19 pandemic continued unabated as countries around the world lifted restrictions and encou...

Russia’s massive assault on Ukraine changed the world forever—and threw the lives of Ukrainian civil...

The world of science is growing and transforming every year. Ongoing trends like the coronavirus pan...

In the biggest research scandal of the COVID-19 pandemic, two major medical journals retracted high-...

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←Back to resources Obtaining and succeeding with a science PhD is arguably as difficult as it’s ever...

←Back to resources Anticyclone “Lucifer” raged across Europe in the summer of 2021, bringing devasta...

←Back to resources Last year, the scientific focus of the world was, once again, squarely on the COV...

←Back to resources It’s year two, and the pandemic is going as strong as ever. With delta variant-fu...

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←Back to resources We’ve shared two articles so far about the dire mental health crisis in science a...

←Back to resources The mental health crisis facing scientists, academics, and all Americans seems to...

←Back to resources America has a mental health crisis. According to the National Council for Behavio...

The push for open science is accelerating in academia, as big institutions insist on better access t...

2020 was no stranger to surprising new trends in research. The elephant in the room, of course, is C...

The benefits of scientific collaboration are well-documented. Whether it’s simply executing experime...

←Back to resources The tech world is constantly buzzing with news of developments in AI and other gr...

COVID-19 took the scientific world by storm in 2020. Scientists and labs in a variety of fields toss...

The debate over Journal Impact Factor (IF) rages on, with no end in sight. Most scientists and exper...

←Back to resources Is the creative process completely different from the scientific process? In many...

←Back to resources Science is in a bind. More research (and more good research) exists than ever bef...

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the bounds of science and technology. The speed and efficacy of ...

←Back to resources As the Black Lives Matter movement makes its voice heard in cities across the US ...

←Back to resources Your definitive run-down of what RSS feeds are—and how to use them.

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←Back to resources Physicians and scientists have to stay up to date. Keeping up with the latest dis...

←Back to resources American CO2 emissions are currently on track to fall just 15% below 2005 levels ...

←Back to resources As the sheer amount of online content and available research continues to explode...

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←Back to resources Every day we face an Internet ruled by unverified sources. We need to be able to ...

←Back to resources Most AI companies are probably not AI companies.

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←Back to resources A mere decade ago artificial intelligence (AI) was the stuff of science fiction. ...

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