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Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.'s NIH slashed science funding across states that backed Trump
A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the NIH funding terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or ...
Seminar dwells on integrating Indian knowledge system with modern science
Gandhi Memorial National College, in collaboration with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana, organised a one-day ...
A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
The upshot? As of today, “vegetative electron microscopy” appears in 22 papers, according to Google Scholar. One was the ...
City science centre set to make ‘knowledge on sphere’ oeprational
Bhubaneswar: Regional Science Centre (RSC) here will become the first institute in India to house an innovative and ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
Meet Lucy Jones, “the Earthquake Lady”
What good is scientific knowledge, in other words, if people don’t respond to it? You might have caught her on TV trying to help people understand earthquake risks after the Eastern Seaboard ...
Can you trust your gut? The pros (and cons) of intuition—according to science
Do you make decisions using your intuition—or is it actually “misintuition”? Here’s what researchers are learning about how ...
Associated Press of Pakistan3d
Ahsan calls for knowledge-led transformation to promote techno economy
Citing Quranic encouragement to explore the universe, he reminded the audience that Islamic Spain, centuries ago, was home to 70 public libraries that introduced Europe to scientific knowledge through ...
National Academies6d
Building the Foundation of Climate Science
As we celebrate Earth Month, we are kicking off a series of retrospectives on National Academies reports and activities ...
Can citizen science be trusted? New study of birds shows it can
Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological ...
Vermont Business Magazine5d
Medical orgs reaffirm commitment to providing patients with science-based information
Advocate for the free exchange of medical and scientific knowledge without censorship or distortion. Resist efforts that attempt to politicize medical science in ways that could endanger public health.
In science communication, realistic avatars may foster more trustworthiness than cartoon-like ones
On TikTok there are exceptional "testimonials" like Nikola Tesla or Marie Curie delivering short science-related messages that have garnered millions of views. This is just one of many examples where ...