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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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Of the Creation Persuasion
From SciAm guest blogger Kyle Hill: The Earth is flat. A full moon leads to more crime. Humans were...
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U.S. Rep: Evolution, Big Bang ‘Lies Straight From the Pit of Hell’
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of the devil in a speech at the Liberty Baptist...
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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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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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Scientists Not Immune From Gender Bias
Hypothesis: Scientists have a superior ability to root out gender bias in their labs because they are trained to...
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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...
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Why Curiosity Matters
Adam Steltzner is a rocker-turned-NASA engineer who helped take the country’s cool new Curiosity rover to the surface of...