Tag: Scientific research
Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience
Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University
Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a...
Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom...
Volha Chykina, University of Richmond; David P. Baker, Penn State; Frank Fernandez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Justin J.W. Powell, University of Luxembourg
What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values
Stan Meiburg, Wake Forest University and Janet McCabe, Indiana University
To understand the federal government’s true priorities, follow the...
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound like something only scientists use in...
DEI initiatives removed from federal agencies that fund science, but scientific...
Filomena Nunes, Michigan State University
As soon as President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025, he signed...
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
America has already lost its global competitive edge in science, and funding cuts proposed...
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch; Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Guillaume Cabanac, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
EXPLORING NATURE
Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks –...
Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond
When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025,...
