Social affairs

Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry....

The non-profit Social Science Research Council is offering a lifeline to economists whose existing grants from the U.S. National Science...

As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor...

This week Berend van der Kolk published a call to ban university rankings. He concludes: ”So, let’s have (inter)national and/or...

This week Berend van der Kolk published a call to ban university rankings. He concludes: ”So, let’s have (inter)national and/or...

This week Berend van der Kolk published a call to ban university rankings. He concludes: ”So, let’s have (inter)national and/or...

The U.S. scientific enterprise has produced significant advances in technologies and medicines that have underpinned the nation’s health, security, safety,...

At the time of writing, there is a new stand-off between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the...

At the time of writing, there is a new stand-off between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the...

David Canter proposes that what makes us different from a computer is being here. The fascinating Chinese sports showcase of...