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How Grad Schools Became the Hidden Culprit Behind America's Student-debt Crisis

How Grad Schools Became the Hidden Culprit Behind America's Student-debt Crisis

Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.

Reproductions of Public Domain Works Should Remain in the Public Domain - Creative Commons

Reproductions of Public Domain Works Should Remain in the Public Domain - Creative Commons

If the work is in the public domain, no copyright licenses should be applied and in the case of CC licenses which are designed to only operate where copyright exists, the application of a CC license is ineffective.

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand Mysterious DNA Circles Common in Cancer Cells

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand Mysterious DNA Circles Common in Cancer Cells

For years, researchers weren't exactly sure what to make of these extra loops of genetic material . That's quickly changing.

Americans Maintain High Levels of Trust in Science

Americans Maintain High Levels of Trust in Science

A new report analyzing decades of public opinion surveys reveals that the public's trust in scientists has remained stable and high over decades.

Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science

Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science

Recognizing the world's most influential researchers  of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

Quality over Quantity: How the Dutch Research Council is Giving Researchers the Opportunity to Showcase Diverse Types of Talent

Quality over Quantity: How the Dutch Research Council is Giving Researchers the Opportunity to Showcase Diverse Types of Talent

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is piloting a narrative CV format in the Veni scheme, its major funding instrument for early career researchers. The format advances showcasing diverse types of talent and encourages assessment of quality rather than quantity.

Horizon 2020 Final Report on Research Integrity

Horizon 2020 Final Report on Research Integrity

The Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Research Integrity, which forms the basis of this report, was carried out between July 2018 and June 2019 by a dedicated Policy Support Facility (PSF) panel consisting of four independent experts and twelve countries.

Graduate Students Protest Trump Labor Board's Proposal to Exempt Them from Definition of "Employee"

Graduate Students Protest Trump Labor Board's Proposal to Exempt Them from Definition of "Employee"

Graduate students said their schools would have no reason to bargain with them over wages, health care and other compensation items if they aren't considered employees under the National Labor Relations Act.

Academia in Uproar over 'planned €12bn Cut' to EU R&D

Academia in Uproar over 'planned €12bn Cut' to EU R&D

Member states' reported plans for Horizon Europe branded 'completely unacceptable' and potentially 'disastrous'.

Why NIH is Beefing Up Its Data Sharing Rules After 16 Years

Why NIH is Beefing Up Its Data Sharing Rules After 16 Years

Draft update to 2003 policy of the National Institute of Health will require that all grantees make data sets freely available.

History As a Giant Data Set: How Analysing the Past Could Help Save the Future

History As a Giant Data Set: How Analysing the Past Could Help Save the Future

Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?

UK Academics Face Furious Backlash for Encouraging Students to Vote

UK Academics Face Furious Backlash for Encouraging Students to Vote

Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas.

Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing

Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing

Analysis finds female-led papers are more likely to be rejected, and less likely to be cited, than those with male corresponding authors.

As SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Scientists See Threat to 'Astronomy Itself'

As SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Scientists See Threat to 'Astronomy Itself'

Various companies are pressing ahead with plans for internet service from space, which has prompted astronomers to voice concerns about the impact on research from telescopes on Earth.

E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules

E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules

A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.

Science Funds for Minority Colleges Become Political Football in the Senate

Science Funds for Minority Colleges Become Political Football in the Senate

Minority-serving colleges and universities are looking on helplessly as vital funding for their science, engineering and math programs are bogged down in the Senate morass.

Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says

Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says

In an unexpected lawsuit, US federal officials claim that Gilead Sciences willfully disregarded government patents on medicines necessary to end the AIDS epidemic.