When the pandemic hit, just like so many Americans, researcher Emma Harrington started working remotely. What shocked her most in those early days of COVID was how productive she was. Then a Ph.D.

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats ...

A new study finds that when people engage in participatory science activities that involve awe-inspiring natural phenomena, such as an eclipse, they more closely identify with science and feel a ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

The government’s decision to scrap the one-year fees-free tertiary scheme in this month’s Budget will be contentious. Some will see it as a sensible saving, others as another blow to students facing ...

Academia isn’t strong on gender equality. Women are under-represented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organisations. This is true for science academies ...

In 2012, a study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior found extroverts experience a closer bond to their workplace, team or school. It was one of many research findings at the time ...

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Adobe Acrobat has largely catered to professionals with its recent AI features. Now, the company is turning its attention to students by making Acrobat more useful with the launch of a new AI tool ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

A new study put ChatGPT to the test by asking it to judge whether hundreds of scientific hypotheses were true or false—and the results were far from reassuring. While the AI got it right about 80% of ...

TULSA, Okla. — Union Public Schools is shutting down its Adult Learning Center, ending free GED preparation classes that offered morning and evening sessions, with childcare for anyone who needed it.