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Jeffrey T. Reed, a feral linguist who co-founded the Cry Wolf Project, recently delivered a lecture about artificial ...

A database tracking the deaths of young Chinese scientists has triggered a heated debate amid growing concern about whether there is a disturbing pattern emerging among the academic community. But the ...

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Senate Democrats are seeking to revive a database that had tracked billion-dollar climate and weather disasters for decades until the Trump administration retired it in May. The National Oceanic and ...

Ethnography has been recognized as a valuable methodological resource in Information Science research. In this study, we describe Information Science scientific articles on ethnography — and others ...

The database helps companies calculate their greenhouse gas emissions. Its creator left the E.P.A. after being investigated for criticizing the Trump administration. By Harry Stevens The Environmental ...

Legend has it that physicist Ernest Rutherford once dismissed all sciences other than physics as mere “stamp collecting.” (Whether he actually said it is a matter of some debate.) But we now live in ...

Tennova Healthcare, owner of six medical centers in Middle and East Tennessee, experienced an internal computer system outage that has forced workarounds for thousands of staff members across the ...

Barry Lawson is a Bates computer science professor who chairs the Program in Digital and Computational Studies. He is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist who plays mandolin, guitar, and upright ...

Federally funded scientific research has become the latest target of the diversity antagonists now in control of Congress and the White House. Earlier this month, Republican senator Ted Cruz of Texas ...