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The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.
Trump has moved to fill just one of 46 top science posts requiring Senate confirmation.
Doudna and Berkeley may appeal the ruling in favor of MIT and Harvard. There is big money at stake.
One Trump adviser suggested that NASA no longer should conduct climate research and instead should focus on space exploration.
A professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania talks about why faculty diversity is an important — and elusive — goal.
An Australian neuroscientist just pleaded guilty to fraud but received a suspended sentence for his research misconduct.
Alexandra Elbakyan is challenging the multibillion-dollar academic publishing industry.
Johns Hopkins and MedImmune team up to train scientists
Executive compensation at private and public colleges.
Huge disparities in parts of the developing world offer important clues about how American men and women perceive the world in higher education today.
Positive results are exciting, but the interest in positive results is skewing what we know about science.
The government peer-review committees that oversee grants are conservative by design. Given that their job is to put taxpayers’ money to good use, they are often reluctant to take big risks. The opposite is often true for crowdfunded projects.
In his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama spent a few seconds announcing a "Precision Medicine Initiative," but did little to explain what he has in mind.
A concentration of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies explains the Swiss position atop the rankings, according to USISTF director Ann Liebschutz.
Improving U.S. education in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — has become a popular cause.
