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.

As our economy, society and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, new college graduates entering the workforce need to have the skills to analyze data effectively and from multiple angles.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Results from a massive research project investigating whether previously reported scientific ...

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 ...

People often complain—and rightly so—that the typical exercise science study involves a half-dozen male undergraduates who follow some sort of workout routine for a couple of weeks. So you can imagine ...

Earthquakes, volcanic eruption, eclipses, meteor showers, and many other natural phenomena have always been part of life on Earth. In ancient cultures that predated science, such events were often ...

Kids who are stars in sports and music don’t usually grow up to be stars as adults, a new study found. An examination of thousands of adults across fields including sports, music, academia and chess ...