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Inspiring Eureka: Rethinking Math and Science Education
The United States ranks just 31st globally in student achievement in math. Annually, fewer than 60,000 American college graduates...
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Leading the STEM Challenge
Despite the flurry of campaign attack ads claiming candidates are either job killers or job creators, one thing remains...
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Romney’s America Doesn’t Need Public Colleges
A Romney presidency would pose an obvious hardship for the country’s public colleges and universities. Romney and Ryan, austerity...
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With Limited Budgets, Pursuing Science Smartly
President Obama and his challenger, Mitt Romney, each responded at length to a question posed by ScienceDebate 2012 about...
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The $1 Billion Journey to the Mantle of the Earth
In an unprecedented $1 billion mission to reach the Earth’s mantle, geologists are set to start drilling 3.7 miles...
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Fraud, Not Error, Is Main Reason Studies in Journals Are Retracted
Falsified data is the main reason biomedical and life science research articles are retracted, a problem that has increased...
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The Marketplace in Your Brain
Neuroscientists have found brain cells that compute value. Why are economists ignoring them?
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Climate Change Is Already Damaging Global Economy
Climate change is already contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing the world more...
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Climate Bias at Fox, WSJ ‘Far Exceeded’ Rest of Media
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has just published a study criticizing Fox News Channel and the Wall Street...
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We Need More STEM Grads, and We Need Them Now
Nearly 1.5 million computing jobs will become available over the next five years. The problem is, even in this...